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Retired Navy. Shipbuilder. Combat Systems. AI. Organizational Learning. NPS professor. Eastern Shore and Sandbridge.

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The “Four Fails:” A Path to Acquisition Purgatory

The infamous British quartermaster in the movie Zulu Dawn who refused to issue Ammunition without a properly signed chit. His performance criteria stressed proper accountability, not victory in battle. The British Army got neither that day....

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The Sad Stories of Wampanoag and LCS

USS Wampanoag Underway (Author’s collection)

In February 1868, USS Wampanoag demonstrated what the future of American naval propulsion could look like. During trials off the Atlantic coast, she averaged 16.6 knots for 38 hours and reached...

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The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. And Battleships

“In Douglas Adams’ sci-fi masterpiece series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. In the story, a group of hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings demand to know the “Ulti...

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Ukraine Goes Back to the Future

Illustration source: Jarraya, I., Al-Batati, A., Kadri, M.B. et al. GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicle navigation: analyzing computational complexity, sensor fusion, and localization methodologies. Satell Navig 6, 9 (2025).

Ukraine has re...

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From Experiment to Adoption

In September 2021, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, then commander of US Fifth Fleet, established Task Force 59 to integrate innovative uncrewed systems, advanced networking, and early artificial intelligence into forward-deployed maritime operati...

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