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cover image: Able Musician Rebecca Nelson greets Prince Charles during the Battle of the Somme commemorations in northern France.
CHIEF NAVAL ENGINEER & MARITIME REGULATOR
Captain Tony Hayes
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his past month has seen an important reinforcement and recognition of our Navy’s advancing technological environment and key enabling discipline (naval engineering) by the appointment of our first Chief Naval Engineer (CNE). I will shortly take up this new role, to give leadership and stewardship to a naval engineering function that has contracted over the past 10 years while Navy has had to grapple with the immediacy of Protector Fleet introduction, focused itself on improving shore-side support, committed to the centralisation of many pan-Defence functions and importa
