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PUBLISHER sembling its 355-ship ? eet, and for good

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] reason as the U.S. continues to face evolv-

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Greg Trauthwein • [email protected]

But much less public attention has been

Editor

Eric Haun • [email protected] given to what Edward Lundquist calls the

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Navy’s “large ? eet of small boats”—which

Contributing Writers numbers 3,200 and counting. Since 2010,

Tom Ewing • Barry Parker • Jeff Vogel

PMS 325 within NAVSEA’s PEO Ships

PRODUCTION has awarded 136 contracts with 23 differ-

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Eric Haun, Editor,

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected] ent boatbuilders to deliver an average of [email protected] about 120 boats a year, Lundquist writes in

SALES

Vice President, Sales & Marketing his feature starting on page 22. Today, PMS

Rob Howard • [email protected] 325 has 14 active contracts with 12 builders for 902 boats worth $528 mil-

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One of those helping to grow the ? eet is Louisiana-based boatbuilder

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Metal Shark Boats, whose vessels are ? guratively and literally pushing the

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John Cagni • [email protected] pace of naval small boat operations (see story starting on page 32). An-

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Frank Covella • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 naval architecture ? rm Gibbs & Cox, whose chief executive Chris Deegan

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected] weighs in for this month’s Insights interview, starting on page 10. The

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