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Podcast: WT 360: The market from all angles
Episode: How Leidos got into the shipbuilding business
Description: What does it take to build a ship when you don’t own a shipyard? Leidos executive Donnelly Bohan explains the technology, strategy and success behind the company’s Sea Hunter project to build an autonomous Navy vessel.
Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers interviews Bohan about how Leidos has grown the program and how the broader conversation over the technology has shifted from the word "unmanned" to "autonomous." There really is a difference.
The Navy eyes increases in spending on vessels with no sailors or submariners, and Bohan shares her company’s strategy to grow in thi...