
Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), which has a long history of developing and manufacturing medium-speed diesel engines for Navy vessels, this week introduced its first high-speed engine to compete to power the Navy’s emerging demand for smaller, all-electric ships, including unmanned vessels. As the Navy moves toward smaller ships, FMD has to go where the customer is going and “adjust our business model” and have smaller engines to power these vessels and remain “relevant,” George Whittier, FMD’s CEO, told Defense Daily…