CAVASShips

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. On this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast from WEST 2023 in San Diego…we talk work force recruitment and development with Xavier Beale, Newport News Shipbuilding vice president of human...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. On this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast from WEST 2023 in San Diego...we bring you highlights from the opening of Austal USA's new San Diego waterfront ship repair facility held Februa...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…accurately analyzing the US Navy’s spending habits is a daunting task, but we hear from perhaps the primary practitioner of that art, Dr. Eric Labs of the Congressional Budget Office,...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Bigger is better – at least 25 out of 28 times in naval warfare. Strategist Dr. Sam Tangredi will join us to talk about why bigger fleets win – and what the US Navy should do about it...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…How ready should our maritime forces and industrial base be? Also, the Marine Corps wants to buy nearly three dozen Light Amphibious Warships. The US Navy isn’t so sure. Noted commenta...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week...we heard a lot of speakers at the Surface Navy Association’s three-day symposium earlier in January. Now we give you the chance to hear some of what we heard, with press briefing exc...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Wrap-Up…In our final SNA'23 podcast we share our conversation with Vago Muradian from his Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast. During our discussion we talk about key takeaways from the confer...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Day Four…We interview Chris Minster, Lockheed Martin's Chris Minster, Director, Combatant Ships, Integration & Test Programs, on the Littoral Combat Ship Lethality and Survivability Program....

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Day Three…We interview Nate Carlson, BAE Systems Program Director of Naval Gun Systems, about the company's counter-UAS products deployed on US Navy ships. Our SNA coverage is sponsored by H...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Day Two…We interview Mark Bock, Vice President for Strategy for Advanced Acoustics Concepts, a Thales Company, on the CAPTAS-4 variable depth sonar that will be the center piece of the Navy'...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Day One…We interview Kari Wilkinson, executive vice president of HII and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding. Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine. Please send us feedback by DM’...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week messaging and communication. Joining us will be our podcast partner, longstanding defense journalist Vago Muradian to discuss the need for the Navy to share its story, the impact of ga...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…2022, THE YEAR IN REVIEW. We’re joined by noted naval commentators Bryan Clark and Jerry Hendrix to take a look at what went well for the US Navy in 2022, what didn’t do as well, and w...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…MARINE COMMANDANT BERGER spends time with reporters while at the Reagan Defense Forum and Chris and I discuss the high points of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act. Please...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we talk with recently retired Navy Captain Jason Salata about NATO’s maritime structure, how nations work together and the alliance’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Additiona...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Books books books - We’ve all certainly learned a lot from reading books. But what is the future of the hard-copy, printed volume? We’ll talk with one of the most well-known and prolif...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…what’s the latest on the Chinese Navy - what are they up to, what are they producing? We hear from a great China analyst to fill us in on new developments, Tom Shugart.  Please send us...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…one of the most widely-used unmanned underwater vehicles in the US Navy is the REMUS family of UUVs, now produced by Huntington Ingalls Industries. HII has just introduced its new REMU...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…with a new Congress headed to Washington what are some of the top priorities? Republican Representative Mike Gallagher, among others wants to swing more support to building up not just...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…there is nothing like getting out to sea and getting underway with the Navy. For journalists, it means talking up close with sailors and gaining a better understanding of what the Navy...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…A growing fleet of more than 100 unmanned surface vessels is expected to be fielded by mid-2023 in the US Central Command operating area, according to the head of the Bahrain-based US...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…We’re just back from a couple days at sea aboard the carrier USS GERALD R FORD, now in the early stages of her first deployment. We’ll hear from a variety of those on board the FORD –...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…it was a busy week for potential and upcoming naval developments. The US Navy is readying the carrier GERALD R FORD for its first extended cruise, the Russian-Ukraine conflict shows ev...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…from frigates and littoral combat ships to mine warfare programs to the diverse ensemble of unmanned surface and underwater systems, the US Navy’s office of Unmanned and Small Combatan...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we are joined by retired Admiral Bill Moran. The former Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Chief of Naval Personnel talks about fleet manning, how to better use technology when recruit...