谢谢你，晚上好。今晚在这里见到你们中的许多人真是太好了，海军行动负责人约翰·理查森（John Richardson）能够与我们同在，这尤其很棒。我要感谢克里斯托弗·纽波特大学（Christopher Newport University）举办的展览，该展览在探索当今的创新和明天的创新期间纪念过去。
一个多世纪以来，纽波特新闻造船公司（Newport News Shipbuilding）建造了世界上最具标志性的船只。今天，我们有20,000名造船商继续这一遗产。其中包括11个或更长时间以上连续服务的女性和男性。我们称他们为造船商。
At the other end of the spectrum, we have our new generation shipbuilders – Millennials and Generation Z – who work side by side with our veteran employees. As you may expect, our Master Shipbuilders instill in us their knowledge and know-how, and we can’t help but feel a sense of pride and patriotism when they speak about the legacies they’ve helped to build over four-plus decades. But what’s equally incredible to witness is our Master Shipbuilders learning and gaining knowledge from our newer employees, who are sharing their technology expertise to solve problems.
I strongly believe in harnessing the ideas of our workforce, and this includes our newest employees. Although they aren’t experts in the traditional sense of the word, our younger workforce is also not encumbered by the mindset of “this is how we’ve always done it.” They possess limitless ideas of what could be.
当已故的伟大诗人戴维·鲍伊（David Bowie）在《太空奇怪》中唱歌时，“今天的星星看起来有所不同。”我们每天都看到这一点 - 人们的思考方式不同……人们学习，人们想象并重塑商业模式。Uber，Airbnb和Netflix就是很好的例子。
在制造业世界中，首先是蒸汽和水力。然后电力和装配线；然后计算机化。现在，我们正处于第四次工业革命之中 - 使工厂“聪明” - 拥有人工智能的机器可以可视化整个生产链并自行做出决策。我们在纽波特新闻造船厂的风口浪尖。
希望您有机会访问我们外部的移动技术预告片，并亲眼目睹一些创新。今天，我们正在现代化我们如何建造船只，如何经营业务以及如何改善人民的工作经验。我们正在从传统的纸张蓝图转变为数字格式，使工作更易于理解和可视化。
对于那些使用iPhone，平板电脑和其他智能设备长大的人来说，这听起来可能不是很多。但是我们正在做的是大数据的定义。我们将占用超过300万部分信息，并确保它不仅可以为我们的造船者提供，而且还可以帮助每个人都增加价值。该过程非常复杂，最终目标是将信息转换为相关，简单和用户友好的过程。
There’s an expression that “better sameness in not innovation.” The technologies we are exploring today are not better sameness. They are all about making dramatic changes in the way we do business at Newport News Shipbuilding.
他们正在破坏我们一个多世纪以来所做的事情。
We are pioneering reality capture for shipbuilding and maintenance, using laser scanning to analyze existing ship spaces more efficiently. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time it takes to perform ship checks on aircraft carriers, saving the Navy millions of dollars.
在我们的造船厂内，我们有一个世界一流的，世界著名的增强现实团队Dogfish Labs。他们已成为工业增强现实的主题专家，使造船厂和海军能够看到数字信息，例如安全警告，或者将未来结构的放置放置在其实际周围环境中，在任何事物永久建造之前。我们还处于海军材料添加剂制造的前沿，我们正在努力在两年内将第一个印刷金属零件安装在核军舰上。
技术不仅仅是改善流程，还涉及使工作场所更安全。我们正在探索使用无人机来协助检查船上的狭窄空间的方法，并帮助我们的造船厂更安全地持有造船工具更长的时间。我们正在利用这些技术和其他技术将物理造船厂转变为“智能造船厂”，这正是我们正在做的。
The fourth industrial revolution requires new ways of thinking, and new leaders – leaders like those of you attending CNU, and those non-traditional students pursing vocational education. There is a real need for American shipbuilding and manufacturing prowess in today’s world, and it’s a challenge we are ready to tackle.
I recently had the honor of riding sea trials on our newest aircraft carrier, Gerald R. Ford – the first new carrier design since the 1970s. It was designed in a 3-D product model, and it is an engineering marvel. You’ve probably heard these slogans before, but they bear repeating. United States Aircraft Carriers are:
民族目的陈述
他们是100,000吨外交
他们是美国主权领土的四英亩半。
任何地方。随时。
The digital advances I spoke of earlier will keep Ford carriers relevant while making them less costly for the Navy to maintain. Today, Newport News Shipbuilding is the sole builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and only one of two builders of nuclear-powered submarines. We are grateful that for 131 years, our ships have been made in America, in Newport News, by the world’s greatest shipbuilders. But we also know that longevity alone is no guarantee. In fact, we see the risk in overestimating this. That’s why we are working hard every day to innovate, to rethink and reinvent the business of shipbuilding.
今天，我们正在向前迈进 - 致力于建立专注于人员和技术的未来，而不仅仅是为了当今的劳动力和水手 - 而是为他们的孩子和孩子的孩子。在今晚像你们许多人一样的未来创新者的帮助下，我相信我们将成功地做到这一点。
Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to share some of the great things underway at Newport News Shipbuilding… and by the way, we’re hiring!