Vice Adm. Mat Winter, USN, the program executive officer for the F-35 Lightning II fighter, discusses program accomplishments, next hurdles, improving program performance, production rates and introducing new capabilities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Michael Bayer, the chairman of the Defense Business Board who chaired US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s “Cybersecurity Readiness Review,” discusses cyber threats, challenges and recommendations to improve security with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The three other participants in the review were J.H. Whitney Investment Management Chairman John O’Connor, Oceanus Security Strategies President Ronald Moultrie and former Raytheon Chairman and CEO William Swanson.
Lt. Col. Andrew “Grundy” Rundle, USMC, the last commanding officer of Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 — known as VMAQ-2 — that was deactivated on March 8, 2019, along with the Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler — discusses the 67-year legacy of his historic unit and its iconic jet, the expeditionary EW and airborne electronic attack missions and what’s next for his storied community with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. The four-seat EA-6B was introduced in 1975 and derived from the two-seat EA-6A Electric Intruder that was the electronic warfare version of the Navy’s A-6 Intruder attack jet. The Navy and Marines acquired 170 Prowlers, which the Navy retired in 2015, replacing it with the Boeing EF-18G derived from the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter.
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.
Cmdr. Steve Sloan, USN Ret., Huntington Ingalls Industries’ LPD program manager, and George Nungesser, the company’s DDG-51 Flight III program manager, discuss the latest developments on their US Navy programs with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner and our coverage was sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
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.
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., the chairman of the House Seapower and Expeditionary Forces subcommittee, discusses the outlook for defense spending now that Democrats control the House, naval readiness implications if President Trump declares a national emergency to build a border wall with military construction funding, whether more subs will be built with the $4 billion savings from the deal to buy two Ford-class carriers at the same time, the Navy’s shifting statements on 355-ships and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on Capitol Hill. We spoke with Courtney, who represents New England’s largest military installation, the Navy’s submarine base in New London, on the sidelines of the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition.
Joe DePietro, vice president of Lockheed Martin Small Combatants and Ship Systems, discusses the variant of the company’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship — with Fincantieri Marinette Marine — being proposed for the US Navy’s FFG(X) frigate program with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner and our coverage was sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Vice Adm. Rick Hunt, USN Ret., former commander of US Naval Surface Forces who is now chief strategy officer of Fincantieri Marinette Marine, discusses the US Navy’s FFG(X) Frigate program and the solution the company has based its FREMM warship developed for the Italian Navy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner and our coverage is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Erik Smith, the president and CEO of Saab Defense and Security USA, discusses the company’s naval portfolio, radars, undersea systems and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner and our coverage is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.