When she was a little girl, every Friday for six years of her childhood, Devon Shepherd’s family would get in their minivan and drive to the airport to watch planes take off and land. Little did she know, plane spotting would help influence her into working at GE Aerospace for more than 20 years.

Fifteen months from now, a cruise ship is scheduled to depart from Miami and travel around the world, visiting all seven continents and hitting over 150 destinations in more than 60 countries. Deep inside the ship’s belly, powering it throughout its voyage, will be GE technology.

Steve Maynard, Randy Johnson, and Rob Liner all work for GE Aviation’s marine gas turbine business, which provides reliable turbine power aboard 631 naval ships in 39 navies around the world. But these three don’t just know each other from work—for a short period in the early 1990s, all three served aboard the former U.S. Navy Spruance-class destroyer, USS Fletcher (DD-992), which was powered by four GE LM2500 gas turbines.

The USS Cincinnati was commissioned into the United States Navy's fleet this weekend in Gulfport, Miss. Powered by two GE Marine LM2500 gas turbines, the USS Cincinnati is the fifth ship to be named Cincinnati.

Along a stretch of the Italian coast between two of the most popular destinations of the Dolce Vita, sit two of the largest shipyards in Italy. It's here where Avio Aero, GE Marine and Fincantieri partner to construct vessels for Italy and foreign naval fleets.

The Italian Navy relies on GE Aviation propulsion technology for their new ships.