On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Vice Adm. Bill Galinis, USN, the commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, discusses the impact of continuing resolutions on ship repair, how his team is addressing a massive maintenance and overhaul backlog, how new contracting approaches can improve availabilities at private shipyards, work to determine extra drydock and personnel needed to address wartime battle damage, improving battle damage repair skill at the upcoming Rim of the Pacific exercise as well as from the Bonhomme Richard after fire gutted the amphibious assault ship, survivability in an era of hypersonic anti-ship weaponry, and lessons from the Constellation-class frigate that can be applied to the Navy’s future destroyer with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2022 symposium.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Amb. Linc Bloomfield, who served at the White House, Pentagon and State Department across five administrations, discusses the recent US-Russia meetings to dissuade Moscow from again invading Ukraine and how best to deter further Russian aggression; Tom Reynolds, the senior director for business development at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions Unmanned Systems, discusses the company’s unmanned strategy, new products like Remus 300, an update on the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, expanding its reach into land and air markets; and Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, discusses key takeaways from the first day of the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and Raytheon Technologies.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest Byron…