Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…It was a busy week for both of us at the Surface Navy Association’s 36th annual symposium just outside Washington DC. During the show we sat down with Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral Rick Cheeseman for an update on recruitment, retention and quality of life issues for sailors, and with Larry Ryder of Austal USA for more on the Alabama shipbuilder’s growing portfolio of ship construction.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…One of the key companies crucial to the development and fielding autonomous surface vessels is Leidos. Two of that company’s top officials, Dave Lewis, senior vice president of the Maritime Business and Dan Brintzinghoffer, vice president in the Maritime Systems Division, are with us to shed some light not just into the complexities of developing ships able to operate without people aboard, but also what they’re ready to do – today.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking…

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…2023 in review. We’re joined by the entire gang from USNI News to look back at some of the biggest and most significant naval developments of the past year. Chief editor Sam LaGrone, deputy editor Mallory Shelbourne and journalist Heather Mongilio will also let us in on what they expect to see in 2024.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…It’s been more than 70 years since the United States dropped from being the world’s largest producer of merchant shipping and the country’s maritime industry fell into a precipitous decline. Today the U.S. owns only about 3 percent of the 55,000 ships in the global commercial fleet, dominated by foreign owned-and-managed companies. China alone produces more than half the commercial ships delivered each year. What should be done about it? What can be done? Veteran maritime industry executive Michael Roberts joins us for a deep dive into some of the issues surrounding this deeply complex issue.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…With several US destroyers seeing action recently in the Red Sea,   retired Navy Captain and former Cruiser and Destroyer commanding officer Dave Snee walks us through the challenges of modern sea combat in confined and constrained waters against known and unknown threats.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…We traveled to Turkey to see up close how a government-owned company is building ships in the country’s biggest naval shipyard. We’ll talk with ASFAT’s chief executive about how his business has become a major defense player in only five years, the company’s joint venture to build ships for and in Pakistan, and what’s next.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…noted naval analyst Bryan Clark is just back from attending the Indo-Pacific Symposium in Australia – which was also attended by the US Navy’s far-reaching Unmanned Surface Division One. He’ll discuss some of the issues of what he heard and saw – including some of the many aspects of the AUKUS Australia-UK-US partnership – and bore in on the unmanned ships picture in the US and Down Under.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Everyone talks about how big a Navy the United States needs. Right after that is how much would such a Navy cost? There is no better expert on the topic of what the U.S. would spend on its Navy than today’s guest, Eric Labs of the Congressional Budget Office. Eric will join us for a deeper dive into his newly-released analysis of the costs of the Navy’s current shipbuilding plans.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…The Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese Military Power was just released, and once again it is full of details about China’s continued military buildup. Naval analyst and long-time China Navy Watcher Tom Shugart is back with us to take a deeper dive into what the People’s Liberation Army Navy has been up to.