On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Mike Petters, the president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries for a wide ranging interview on COVID-19 impacts to operations; future Navy force structure and changes to the amphibious force of the future; unmanned surface platforms; the Ford-class aircraft carrier program; future frigate proposal and the Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter program…and much more.
As the Navy ramps up its great power game, it must learn Ford’s lessons to ensure major new programs like ballistic missile submarines, frigates, a surface warship and large- and medium-displacement unmanned vessels, a large unmanned tanker aircraft and more are successfully and quickly executed.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The champagne bottle hit the cold steel hull and bounced off it did not break. Undaunted, the Honorable Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy pulled back and again swung the glass bottle with the force of a baseball player hitting a home run.Uttering for the second time in 52-years Kennedy the words “I christen thee United States Ship John F. Kennedy, may God bless this ship and all who sail her” – the second swing did the job.
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer minced no words about the USS Gerald R. Ford’s struggles and recent lawmaker comments about the ship while talking to reporters in Norfolk on Oct. 28, shortly after arriving back from a several hour visit to the ship, which is undergoing trials off the Virginia Coast. Defense & Aerospace Report’s Mark Faram was present at the discussion and captured this video.
WASHINGTON – The US Navy’s top acquisition official was upbeat as he met with media Monday in his Pentagon office. He was just back after a quick trip to the long-troubled aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), now underway off the Virginia coast on sea trials after 15 months in a shipyard.
Charlie McCullough, the director of maritime business development at BAE Systems, discusses the 10-tube version of the Virginia Payload Module that will equip future Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines with a greater range of capabilities from strike to reconnaissance to cargo with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradesheow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Sam Bushell, technical program manager at BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security Sector, discusses the merits of a model-based systems engineering approach — being applied across the company — to better modernize existing products and more quickly develop new ones to cut acquisition and sustainment cost with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Vice Adm. Rick Hunt, USN Ret., the former commander of US Naval Surface Forces who is now the chief strategy officer for Fincantieri Marinette Marine, unveils the frigate design the company will propose for the US Navy’s FFG(X) program, discusses the requirements dialogue with service officials and next steps to field a more capable and survivable warship with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Dave Allen, the chief executive of Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, discusses integrated ocean surveillance, wave glider updates and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington. Our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, USN, the US Navy’s director of cyber security, discusses improving cyber security, changing culture, training better cyber leaders, information warfare and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.