"Workforce efficiency can be optimized through better planning."
Workload leveling is a direct function of assembly time and backlog. If you want to control efficiency effectively the schedulers and production planners need to have final prints and both short and long term production requirements (backlog.). Inconsistent work means layoffs which kill both efficiency and talent.
The bridging generational gap issue is super underrated in defense manufacturing. Most people focus on the AI tools themselves but miss that knowledge transfer from retiring shipbuilders to younger workforce is the real bottlneck. I've noticed similar patterns in aerospace where the digital tools are there but nobody knows how to map tacit knowledge into software-readable formats. The ShipOS aproach makes sense if it can actually capture tribal knowledge and not just optimize whats already documented.
Combining practical knowledge of digital technologies with skill in a hands-on trade is where it's at.
Uhhh...Palantir? Was the ghost of Edward Louis Bernays not available? I think I'll skip on what the surveillance state spokesman has to say.
Haven't had a chance to listen yet.....
This immediately stuck out;
"Workforce efficiency can be optimized through better planning."
Workload leveling is a direct function of assembly time and backlog. If you want to control efficiency effectively the schedulers and production planners need to have final prints and both short and long term production requirements (backlog.). Inconsistent work means layoffs which kill both efficiency and talent.
The bridging generational gap issue is super underrated in defense manufacturing. Most people focus on the AI tools themselves but miss that knowledge transfer from retiring shipbuilders to younger workforce is the real bottlneck. I've noticed similar patterns in aerospace where the digital tools are there but nobody knows how to map tacit knowledge into software-readable formats. The ShipOS aproach makes sense if it can actually capture tribal knowledge and not just optimize whats already documented.
We need naval architects to design the ships.
We need steel mills to build the hulls.
We need factories to build engines, weapons and electronics.
Each of these factories has its own supply chain stretching back to the mines.
We need shipyards to assemble all these pieces.
We need to train people at every level.
I am sure Palantir can help, but we need Henry Ford, Henry Kaiser, Pierre DuPont, etc.
As an incentive commit to 12 Iowa +++ class battleships. Nuclear powered. Three 18” guns. Four 5” guns. Torpedoes. Lots of missiles.
Settle on a design. No changes. Build them.