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The Navy, Manufacturing, and National Security
April 6, 2023
In this podcast episode, Peggy Smedley and Whitney Jones, director of the Submarine Industrial Base, talk about how to improve manufacturing — and how to do it with the Navy Submarine Building Enterprise. She says her organization is a year and a half old, and it has seen rapid growth.
They also discuss:
- Machine shops are folding, and how it is impacting the Navy Submarine Building Enterprise.
- The relationship between the Navy and American manufacturing—and how it is a national security issue.
- How to get younger and older generations interested in this—and how technology fits in.
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