Moore. We are going to get started. Good morning. I am a senior fellow here. And i am delighted to kick off this mornings mari security dialogue. The dialogue represents a company hosted series. Seeks to highlight both current thinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the cost gourt. And we look forward to welcoming you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would like to thank in a special way Lockheed Martin and huntingt huntington ingols industry. We would like to make a brief safety announcement. Should there be anything as a convener, we have exits in the back and stairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back should be directors. So just look for one of us. And for our formal introduction, i am going to turn things over to vice admiral peter dally and we are happy to have him here. Welcome, i am pete daly. We are proud to bring you this series continuation now in our third year. We give special recognition to our spon
The reason its the number one priority is because of the ships i have today about a third of them are under control in a pure sight availability. So to the extent we dont get them out on time it causes a great deal of stress on the force. There was a this where a reporter said the u. S. Navy for the first time did not have an Aircraft Carrier at sea for the First Time Since world war i. Part of that is because it took 13 months. So it wasnt lost to me when i came into the job a year ago that sees the ability to get it out on time. It is critically important. So back to my original comment. One, we need more people, clearly. It cant be only about the people. There are a couple of other things well have to do here. I have to have the capacity to do the work. I have to figure out ways to train the work force. Kids today are coming in. They learned differently than we learned. The typical time line to get a worker from the time they can go down and do something useful on the ship was about
And international studies, this is about an hour and a half. All right. Well, were going to go ahead and get started. Good morning, everyone. Im a senior fellow here in the International Security program at csis. And im delighted to kick off this mornings Maritime Security dialogue with vice admiral moore. The Maritime Security dialogue represents a cohosted series between csis and the u. S. Naval institute or usni, and it seeks to highlight both current thinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps, and the coast guard. Today represents our second dialogue for 2017, and we look forward to welcoming yall back for additional events throughout the year. We would also like to thank, in a special way, Lockheed Martin and Huntington Ingles industry for making this series possible. And before we get underway for big events like this, we also like to make just a brief announcement, safety announcement, we dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything as a conve
Currentthinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the coast guard. Today represents our second dialogue for 2017, and we look forward to wrel come you all back for additional events throughout the year. We would also like to thank in a special way Lockheed Martin and Huntington Ingles industries for their support in making this event and this series possible. Before we get under way for big, vents like this we also like to make just a brief announcement, safety announcement. We dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything as a convener and we want to make sure that we have exits right here on the back on both sides and stairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back will be your responsible officers to kind of direct you in the right way just in case anything should come up. Just look for one of us. And so, for our formal introduction to get things started ill turn to vice admiral peter daly and were happy to have them here and
Special way Lockheed Martin and Huntington Ingalls industries for their support in making this series possible. Before we get underway, wed also like to make just a brief announcement. We dont expect any difficulties, but should there be anything, we just want to make sure you know weve got some exits right here in the back on both sides and stairs down the front. The chief executive officer of the naval lockheed hard tmartin. He holds degrees from George Washington university and a Naval Nuclear engineering degree from mit. There a Major Program manager for Aircraft Carriers and Program Executive officer for submarines, peo subs. Finally, last year in june, tom moore assumed command as the 44th commander at fc. I point out theres over 75,000 uniformed and civilian employees of nafc. They are responsible for all the super vising of navy ship and submarine shipbuilding and responsible for the maintenance and the systems that go on those ships directly. So we welcome admiral tom moore wh