AIRWaves

AIRWaves Episode #28: In this episode of AIRWaves, we sit down with Liz McMichael, the NAVAIR Additive Manufacturing and Digital Thread Integrated Product Team Lead and Ling Xu, a Systems Engineer with the Additive Manufacturing team​, to talk about Additive Manufacturing and how this game-changing technology is helping to rapidly deliver capability and solve emergent fleet needs.

AIRWaves Episode #27: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with Commander Glenn Rioux, the commanding officer of the United States Naval Test Pilot School, to learn more about TPS and what it takes to be selected into this elite training program.

AIRWaves Episode #26: In this episode of our Mission Focus podcast series, we sit down with Lieutenant Commander Brandon Michaelis, the CNAF Naval Sustainment System O-Level reform champion, to learn more about this maintenance transformation reform effort and how it’s going to help us achieve readiness across the fleet.

AIRWaves Episode #25: In this episode of our Mission Focus podcast series, learn how three of our NAWCAD Lakehurst teammates filled an urgent support equipment need and returned USS Iwo Jima to mission capable status.

AIRWaves Episode #24: In this episode of our "Mission Focus" podcast series, recently-promoted Chief Sindy Johnson, a logistics specialist from Fleet Readiness Center Southwest talks about the honor of her selection and tells us about her contributions to Navy readiness.

AIRWaves Episode #23: In this episode of our "Mission Focus" podcast series, CAPT Doug Belvin, Program Manager for PMA-264 Air Anti-Submarine Warfare systems, along with Chris Weller, lead systems engineer, and Tom Powell, electronics engineer talk about the importance of fleet perspective.

AIRWaves Episode #22: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with John Peterson and Matt Southard, engineers with the Airborne Weapons Support Equipment Branch at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst.

AIRWaves Episode #21: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with Michael Cole, a logistician working with the H-60 program, to talk mission focus.

AIRWaves Episode #20: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with Mr. Tom Rudowsky, Director, NAVAIR Sustainment Group, to talk mission focus.

AIRWaves Episode #19: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with Captain Stephen Tedford, Vice Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, to talk mission focus.

AIRWaves Episode #18: In this edition of AIRWaves, we chat with Keith Gray, Chief Engineer of the Standard Missile Technical Project office at NAWCWD, to discuss the SM-6 rocket motor effort, which is a successful example of scheduled acceleration achieved by leveraging technology and organic capability within the command.

AIRWaves Episode 17: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller, Commander Naval Air Forces, to​​ discuss readiness recovery and the current state of naval aviation.

AIRWaves Episode 16: In this edition of AIRWaves, NAVAIR Commander Vice Admiral Dean Peters shares his expectations for 2019; his thoughts on speed and readiness, the future mission aligned organization, positive trends and opportunities for improvement.

AIRWaves Episode 15: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with the BATWING project team from the Airborne Electronic Attack aircraft program office to learn how they responded to an urgent fleet need in record time.

AIRWaves Episode 13: In this edition of AIRWaves, we sit down with a very prestigious group of individuals, the NAVAIR fellows. Established in 2000, the Fellows Program at NAVAIR recognizes engineers and scientists for their significant technical contributions to naval aviation, while also encouraging innovation and advancements in their technical fields.

AIRWaves Episode 12: In this edition of AIRWaves, we talk with the winning team from NAVAIR's 2018 Data Challenge and discuss how they developed modular, scalable solutions that enable managers to predict attrition, understand why employees choose to leave, and take action early to recruit, hire or incentivize them to stay.

AIRWaves Episode 11: In this edition of AIRWaves, discover how digital data is changing the way we do business.

AIRWaves Episode 8: In this episode of AIRWaves, Ms. Kathleen Donnelly, NAVAIR director for Support Equipment and members of the Engineering and Scientist Developmental Program at Patuxent River, Maryland and China Lake, California share perspectives on NAVAIR's Product Centered Engineering initiative, which is designed to help us deliver products and services to the fleet faster.

AIRWaves Episode 7: In this episode of AIRWaves, VADM Peters dives deep into his three priorities: Mission, People and Relationships, and why they're important to NAVAIR's future success.

AIRWaves Episode 6: In this episode of AIRWaves, we sit down with Brian Markowich, Division Head for the Air Vehicle Test and Evaluation Division at NAVAIR, to talk about an increasingly important skill that applies to everyone in the workplace (and in our personal lives) – critical thinking.

AIRWaves Episode 4: In this episode of AIRWaves, RDML Brian "Zulu" Corey and Ms. Leslie Taylor discuss how Capabilities Based Test and Evaluation (CBT&E) -- a key element of Capabilities Based Acquisition -- increases speed, reduces cost and delivers better solutions for the warfighter.

AIRWaves Episode 3: Interview with Capt. Erik Etz, Commanding Officer of Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division Listen to Capt. Etz explain how Live Virtual Constructive training enables the fleet to be more mission ready.

AIRWaves Episode 2: Interview with Dave Cohen, Director of Systems Engineering on systems engineering's role in digital transformation Find out how streamlining processes, leveraging model based systems engineering and reinventing how we do business in a digital world all contribute to NAVAIR's #DigitalTransformation

AIRWaves Episode 1: Interview with Todd Balazs, NAVAIR Digital Integration Officer on NAVAIR's Digital Transformation Find out how NAVAIR is harnessing digital trends to accelerate acquisition and sustainment outcomes. New business models, enabled by digital.