VDMC Executive Director Moderates Important Panel at DSI Maritime Security Summit
July 23-24, 2025
VDMC’s Executive Director, RADM Mark Whitney, USN, (Ret.), attended the Defense Strategies Institute Maritime Security Summit in National Harbor, MD where he moderated the “Maritime Dominance Panel: Efforts to Revitalize Shipbuilding and Strengthen America’s Maritime Power.”
The panel brought together maritime industry experts to address one of the nation’s most urgent challenges: revitalizing and strengthening America’s shipbuilding and ship repair capacity for the future.
Panel members discussed strategies to scale up U.S. shipbuilding & ship repair, enhance maritime program funding, incentives to boost US Navy readiness, and how to drive innovation across defense and commercial fleets with the goal of building a stronger maritime industrial base for the U.S.
This was an important discussion regarding current and future efforts to support overall maritime dominance, highlighting the need for investment, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.
VDMC was proud to contribute to the national dialogue on providing solutions for strengthening the maritime industrial base and advancing technological innovation in support of defense and commercial shipbuilding.
Special thanks to Matt Evans, Paul Smith, and Keith Haasl for sharing your vast expertise on such a relevant topic.