The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has been at sea one of every two days since returning to service in October, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said Tuesday, continuing evidence that the ship is meeting or exceeding expectations.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, PhD, R-Wisc., member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee, discusses the Trump administration’s 2021 Navy budget request, the gap between 355-ship rhetoric and reality, cutting frigates and retiring first four Littoral Combat Ships, and USN-USMC integration and the need to move quickly to rebuild the fleet with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition congressional breakfast on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2020.
Rep. Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., a member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, discusses the Trump Administration’s 2021 Navy budget request and balancing defense investment and social spending with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Amphibious Warship Industrial Coalition’s annual congressional breakfast on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2020.
Rear Adm. Sam Perez, USN Ret., the president and CEO of the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition, discusses the Trump Administration’s 2021 Navy Budget Request, the US Marine Corps new vision of distributed amphibious operations and integrating USN-USMC operations and planning with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the AWIBC’s annual congressional breakfast on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2020.
Capt. Steve Moorhouse, Royal Navy, the commanding officer of HMS Queen Elizabeth, discusses the UK supercarrier’s training cycle in US waters to prepare for its first deployment, rebuild a carrier strike capability and improve high-end warfighting skills with reporters Nov. 20, 2019, during the Atlantic Future Forum held aboard the ship at anchor off the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. The ship ended its three-month deployment and returned to the UK on Nov. 21.
Tom Modly, the under secretary of the US Navy, discusses the service’s new Educating for Seapower or E4S plan to improve officer and enlisted education to grow more strategic, thoughtful leaders as the critical advantage in great power competition and fields questions about the reported retirement of the USS Harry S. Truman with 30 more years of service life remaining and the rational for shifting resources from purchasing two more San Antonio-class amphibious ships toward more survivable platforms like submarines with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in his office at the Pentagon.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, PhD, R-Wisc., a member of the House Armed Services’ Seapower and Expeditionary Warfare subcommittee, discusses the need for new US amphibious warfare concepts and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Gallagher is a former Marine how represents a district that is home to Fincantieri Marinette Marine, which builds the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship and is one of the competitors in the US Navy’s competition for a new frigate. We spoke on the sidelines of the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition breakfast in Capitol Hill.