Name: Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan
Uploaded: 2026-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Description: Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan

“Between fiscal year 20 and 24, the prior administration consistently underfunded Navy shipbuilding, requesting a cumulative $127 billion.”

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“Congress recognized the shortfall and enacted $142 billion, a $15 billion gap that would have represented ships not built and capabilities…”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 26:32-26:44

“In fiscal year 21, the administration requested a 19.9 billion, a 16% cut from the previous year.”

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“The President has significantly increased the defense budget top line to 1.5 trillion.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 27:48-27:55

“When I first reviewed the Don's unmanned programs, there were over 200 unmanned system efforts previously dispersed across six program…”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 31:38-31:51

“The US Navy announced the $100 million prize challenge for Platform Agnostic Command and Control autonomy.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 39:09-39:17

“The fact is, I can't, and no one can tell you what it costs to run the United States Navy.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 47:48-47:55

“The Marine Corps attack drone team in Quantico got a drone working in 14 months, which should have taken one week.”

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“If you put VLS tubes, that's an extra $600 million. That's an extra nine months to do it.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 1:01:53-1:01:59

“American companies are bringing their production lines back home.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 19:16-19:21

“Our manufacturing sector is surging forward with unprecedented momentum, unveiling multibillion dollar investments to onshore production.”

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“The latest job report yesterday showed the largest increase in more than a year.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 19:34-19:39

“Even the beleaguered manufacturing industry added jobs for the first time since November of 2024.”

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“The Golden Fleet is America's shipbuilding renaissance.”

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“Restoring American industrial power, integrating unmanned and AI enabled systems and partnering with the private sector to deliver…”

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“Congress had to add $3.4 billion just to keep critical programs afloat.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 26:58-27:03

“President Trump has correctly identified this as unacceptable.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 27:03-27:08

“The One Big Beautiful bill Act provides $29.2 billion for U.S. navy shipbuilding program and other efforts to bolster U.S. shipbuilding…”

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“Fiscal year 26 appropriations that includes 27.2 billion for 19 vessels and 2.6 billion in maritime industrial based supplier capacity…”

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“This is a cumulative $59 billion since President Trump took Office almost double the annual spend of the Biden administration.”

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“Unmanned systems are not a side project of the Golden Fleet. They are a core element in the foundation of the maritime industrial base…”

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“The Ukraine war has revealed a fundamental the cumbersome nature of how we buy and build weapons.”

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“RAS allows us to harness the ingenuity of a much broader industrial base and to do it faster than traditional acquisition pathways ever…”

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“Medium unmanned service vessels are becoming the strategic lay down trucks of the fleet.”

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“Today, there is no policy decision classifying them as combatants. They are designated as other combatants, which gives us the flexibility…”

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“Platforms alone do not deliver advantage; integration does.”

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“Ship OS is the connective tissue of the Golden Fleet.”

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“AI gives us decision advantage in contested environments.”

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“The Navy is deploying DEC, the Data Edge Collection Kit.”

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“The government cannot deliver the Golden Fleet alone, fast enough or at scale.”

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“Private sector partnership is not optional; it is foundational.”

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“Large surface combatants, a requirement defined by the U.S. navy, are designed to deliver long range, high speed, sustained fires, robust…”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 39:58-40:13

“The Trump class battleship will serve as an unambiguous statement of American resolve.”

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“Small surface combatants are affordable, producible and lethal at scale.”

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“The Navy is rapidly adopting AI and digital capabilities to increase the lethality and survivability of the fleet.”

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“There's no incentive to cut costs in the Navy.”

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“Until we get an audit done, until we really look at numbers and how to understand things, that's a hard question to answer.”

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“We've gotten way too fragmented. And I think that's just a growth in bureaucracy not having enough accountability.”

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“We have underinvested in our infrastructure for 20, probably 30 years.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 52:32-52:39

“One of the piers is so degraded that the cranes can't sit on them and handle submarine Load or ship load.”

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“The payback on fixing the other half of the pier is like within a year.”

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“I still don't have an org chart of the Navy and what everybody does.”

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“We have to be clearer about our requirements [for subsea drones].”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 57:21-57:26

“We get this budget, and you either spend it or lose it, and that leads to some of the inefficiency.”

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“If you look at the 26 budget, we had 17 or 19 ships in there.”

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“You should expect that's at least more than double [the number of ships] in the new budget.”

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“There is a pretty big contingent of auxiliary and support ships [in the new budget].”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 58:36-58:42

“The President has correctly addressed [the need for upgrading the maritime industrial base] in the budget.”

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“We are challenged in every program.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 1:00:26-1:00:29

“Why can't we get ships out? I went to Rota and those guys crank it out.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 1:00:59-1:01:05

“Labor looks at our backlog and our building very different than we do as C suite executives.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 1:03:06-1:03:13

“Those are the people we need to get to, and that's who we need to attract into industry and make them want to do these jobs.”

Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan | Uploaded January 29, 2026 | 1:03:14-1:03:20

John Phelan: “US GDP has surged 5.6%.”