Initial Interviews (from July 23 Mtg)
✅ Andy Summers – ship design manager
✅ CAPT Brian Perkinson – program manager at commissioning
✅ CAPT John Ingram – 400 D, SupShip Bath
RADM George Meinig – AEGIS Technical Director
RADM George Huchting – Last AEGIS DRPM, PEO for OT
George Sawyer – Assistant Secretary for Shipbuilding and Logistics (initial design decisions)
400 D Technical
Randy Fortune
CAPT Mike Cassiday – CS Design Manager
Tom Pugh – Radar (?)
Jerry O’S
400B
Larry Rogers
NavSea
Hank Kuzma – Damage Control
CAPT (Ret) Jim Baskerville – First Ship Design Manager
CAPT (Ret) Denny Mahoney – HM&E Design
CAPT (Ret) Corky Graham
SupShip
Ralph Staples – PMR
Sean Stackley – Production Officer
Crew
John Morgan
LCDR Marshall Godwin – commissioning CSO
BIW
Dave Albert – Ship Supe
✅ Ray Weber – BIW, unofficial assistant chief engineer
Other
Burke Family Members
RADM Cobb – PEO Ships
CAPT Vaughn Mahaffey – OTD
Nevin Carr
Clay Harris – 2003 War Cruise
John McCarthy – Former BIW now President and CEO of Seaspan Shipyards and Mark Lamare.
Seth Miller
Collin Meeks
Tom Rivers
N96 CAPTs Nick Richards, Ric Rushton, Robin Russell – all who visited with ADM Burke in the Virginian
Rick Hepburn
