March 29, 2024

VADM Dunaway Retires

Vice Adm. David A. Dunaway

Pax News: Paul Grosklags assumes command of NAVAIR, from retiring VADM David Dunaway and the Atlantic Test Range gets a new building.

Dunaway Opens “New Defense Environment” Panel

Vice Adm. David A. Dunaway

NAVAIR Senior Leadership will discuss AIRWORKS, Additive Manufacturing, Open Architecture, Weapons Modularity and Integrated Warfighting Capability (IWC), Sept. 24.

Unmanned “Automated,” Emphasizes DBED

Kmax helicopter

UAS doesn’t only mean “aircraft” systems, Sec’y Murray tells government. Industry and academic leaders leverage the region’s brain-trust and a UMd research/incubator to go farther.

Education is NAVAIR’s Life Blood

Sharing some knowledge across industry and military will enhance the region’s educational network already supporting the STEM programming NAVAIR needs, says VADM Dunaway.

Making a More Coordinated Business of NAVAIR

Vice Adm David Dunaway

Each discipline of NAVAIR “has been brought up individually… (not) in coordination with each other…We’re going to take a real hard pull on trying to make our business systems connect,” says Dunaway.

Military Budgeting to Reallocate Industry’s 87%

Vice Adm. David Dunaway

“It’s going to be real important to get control of things within the United States government that we have been abdicating out to large industry,” says VADM Dunaway describing basic budget guidance.

Cuts + Attrition Net Journeymen Jobs @ PAX

Jobs will be cut at PAX as military cost cuts continue, but attrition is expected to be much larger than reductions. VADM Dunaway expects PAX to remain in a hiring mode.

US Navy is Carrier-Based and Well Capitalized

Cost containment strategies pull implementation tasks in-house with the goal of using smaller, community contractors to produce parts for military-designed systems.