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Of course national security must always come first. When you add this to the consolidation of the Henderson Shipbuilding Precinct for Defence only, the commercial sector is going to be significantly impacted in terms of available dry-docking facilities. This creates investment opportunities in the commercial maritime sector but deep pockets required and cost escalation and unionisation risks are higher than ever. It is going to be interesting to watch this play out short, medium and long term.

12 years of my career spans 3 different aircraft carriers. CVN-74's RCOH and the carrier construction of CVN-78 and CVN-79. When I say there is no better job in the world, I mean it. We're building warships that will defend our freedom for the next 50 years. Knowing you are a part of something way bigger than yourself makes every good or bad day worth it. #themissionstartswithus #newportnewsshipbuilding

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Most people and organizations won’t change until they have no other choice. I fought the same ridiculous battle and gave up - as captain of two ships (and three more commands of many) with extensive crossover commercial training, having sailed all the Great Lakes and circumnavigated the Globe, and two decades at sea… The answer continues to be, “Oh we have a program for that” by MARAD - and Navy doesn’t want to “weaken” its own credentialing system. How many USN and USCG veterans successfully convert their experience to a USCG credential each year? I’ve met a precious few - like single digit few - and I’ve read thousands of mariner resumes by now. The U.S. has only about 12,000 active credentialed mariners. We have a MASSIVE and strategic shortage of people - the Navy suffers from this via Military Sealift Command - in one of my Navy command roles I had roughly half of the operational MSC Fleet, and the age and time they have to spend at sea due to the shortage are mind-blowing. This is amazing to me: Even USCG ship captains don’t automatically earn an equivalent license, much less their various enlisted and officers who should earn equivalent credentials with a tiny bit of training. Why don’t the Navy and USCG sailors have their equivalent service plan for and grant the equivalent license? I’ve posted on this before - there is much less of a gap than people think, we ignore this very strategic problem, and time spent talking about each other instead of with each other is going nowhere. Three years leading and hiring civilian mariners have convinced me that there is no monolithic offshore industry; the fundamentals of excellence are honed at sea, and we continue to ignore an entire workforce of USCG and USN experience for no other reason than special interests and ego. Shipping companies need to develop recruiting programs to grow this talent, and Congress needs to drive real change. We have something like 26 different captains licenses due to myriad special interests. It takes MONTHS just to get a mariner medical recertification approved. I can renew my drivers license in an afternoon or less. How many licensed drivers do we have? Two hundred million? This is a program SCREAMING for reinvention through its moribund and hidebound bureaucracy. Wanna make a strategic difference for our security? Fix our mariner credentialing system. Stop feeding the status quo with excuses that say, “this is what we’ve always thought…” and provide meaningful progress. Increase the motivation to serve by offering a credential transition process that serves a lifetime of adventure at sea. Yeah, this makes me mad - and sad too. #dreambigger Mark Kelly for Senate Eric J. Labs ANN PHILLIPS Office of the Chief of Naval Operations USCG HQ, COMMANDANT Naval Surface Force U.S. Pacific Fleet Military Sealift Command

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Here's What The Navy's New CMV-22B Osprey Can Do

“Lucky for the #Navy the C-2 Greyhound is still available,” Air Boss Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever https://lnkd.in/gNfY2jFp said in a panel at the WEST 2024 conference https://lnkd.in/gGq7WwTH, co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA International. “Limited operational impacts at this point but there are still operational impacts. And as you look into the future, significant operational impacts.” The C-2A Greyhound is a twin-engine turbojet cargo aircraft produced by Northrop Grumman, primarily used by the United States Navy for carrier onboard delivery (COD) missions. It has been a reliable workhorse for the Navy for more than 60 years, known for its ability to transport personnel, mail, and cargo between shore and aircraft carriers at sea. Most carrier visitors at sea get there and back via a COD ride. See https://lnkd.in/d_xjRcTb Looks like it might have to "keep calm and carry on" a few more. Originally procured in 1960, it was reupped in 1980 with the same airframe. https://lnkd.in/gufudUbR As part of the planned retirement for the Greyhounds, the Navy has stopped training new C-2 pilots and has begun to wind down spares and logistic support. Of course, since it has a lot of commonality with the E-2, there are still spares and pilots around. The service initially planned to retire its 15 remaining C-2A Greyhound carrier onboard delivery aircraft over the next two years and replace them with a total of 38 CMV-22B #Ospreys. Navy’s COD Transition from C-2A to CMV-22B Accelerated; First V-22 Deployment Set for 2021 https://lnkd.in/gfsX8DJJ During a House Armed Services seapower [October 2018] and projection forces subcommittee hearing on Friday, Rear Adm. Scott Conn, then director of air warfare on the chief of naval operations’ staff (OPNAV N98), told lawmakers that the transition was already happening as fast as possible. “We have accelerated the sundown of the C-2 from 2027 to 2024. We have our first (CMV-22B) aircraft being built in Philadelphia today, going down the line. That aircraft will deliver in FY 20. We then have to do a modified [operational test] and [developmental test] and the only thing … we’re testing are the things different on the CMV-22 as compared to the MV-22. So that’s going to be a very compressed test,” Conn said. Maybe they shouldn't have accelerated the testing. As we used to say when I was in the testing business 🤔 "you want it bad, you get it bad."

This frigate holds a very special place in my heart. Many years ago, my first ship delivery was St Albans as Head of Programme for Type 23 frigates supported by a world class team. Will be wonderful to see her back supporting our UK fleet in front line duties. #systemsintegration #systemsengineering #ukmanufacturing #defence #projectleadership #femaleleadership #engineeringleadership #customercentricity