In this special report from the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow, Virginie Brizard, global communications manager at Bell, a Textron company, shares fashion insights and sartorial do's and don'ts from this year's event in a July 17, 2018, interview with Defense &. Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS. Bell sponsors our Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast.

Eric Chewning, deputy assistant defense secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy, says the US must leverage its “full national-security innovation base,” previews the Pentagon's input into the Trump administration's ongoing national industrial base assessment and strategy process, discusses industrial base considerations in contract awards, merger and acquisition approval policy, and much more in a wide-ranging, July 16, 2018, interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Simon Everest, director of the UK Department for International Trade Defence & Security Organisation (also known as DIT DSO), discusses Australia’s selection of BAE Systems’ Type 26 frigate for its SEA 5000 future frigate program, the contract’s economic importance to the UK, Type 26 and 31E frigate sales projections, the new Future Combat Air Strategy, global demand for UK defense, aerospace and security systems during a July 16, 2018, interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Gen. Jean-Paul Paloméros, French Air Force Ret., NATO's former Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and former French Air Chief, discusses the 2018 NATO Summit, the risks posed by alliance disunity, the importance of preserving the US-EU relationship and more in a July 13, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian interview at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Bluffing may work in poker and real estate, but not when dealing with the most dangerous country in the world. And history has taught that escalating rhetoric by inexperienced or misguided leaders has unintended consequences.

Since 1909, the Paris Air Show has served as a showcase where the newest military-, commercial- and general-aviation aircraft make their international debuts. And for years, organizers have been hungry to feature the F-35 Lighting II, a game-changing Lockheed Martin jet that promises to transform air combat with its stealth and sophisticated sensor and networking capabilities.

With tensions running high on the Korean peninsula, it’s time for President Trump and his team to tone down the saber rattling and craft a sanctions and diplomatic strategy to address a growing threat to the United States and its allies.

To pay for the controversial wall along America's border with Mexico, hire more immigration agents to police it and deport illegal immigrants, and boost defense spending, the Trump administration wants to cuts billions from three agencies that are also vital to US national security: the State Department, Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration.

In "Trump's 2019 Missile Defense Budget: Choosing Capacity over Capability," a February 28, 2018, installment of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' CSIS Briefs series, Tom Karako, PhD, director of CSIS' Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow in its International Security Program, and Wes Rumbaugh, an research assistant with the ISP, analyze the missile-defense side of the Trump administration's FY19 budget request, identify its priorities and shortfalls, lend historical context and deem the proposed budget "inadequate" to combat "the threat for both ballistic and nonballistic missile attack."

"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation," a February 2018 joint report from the Center for a New American Security, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the University of Cambridge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and OpenAI, looks at the potential for artificial intelligence to be weaponized in the digital, physical and political security domains, predicts the future AI threat landscape and offers preventative recommendations for policymakers to combat the risk of misused AI. "This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of artificial intelligence technologies, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats," the report reads. "We analyze, but do not conclusively resolve, the question of what the long-term equilibrium between attackers and defenders will be. We focus instead on what sorts of attacks we are likely to see soon if adequate defenses are not developed.

In "Overview of the 2019 President's Budget Request for Defense," a Feb. 15, 2018, report from the Center for a New American Security, authors Susanna Blume, a CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessment Program fellow, and Lauren Fish, a research associate with the program, provide a bird's-eye look at what the White House's FY19 defense-budget request means for readiness, procurement, research, development, test and evaluation, the Missile Defense Agency, US Army, US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Air Force, and the US Defense Department, as a whole. "Even in these times of increasing budgets, DoD must still make tough decisions about what to prioritize and where to accept risk," they write.

In "Power and Influence in a Globalized World," a February 2018 joint report from the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, the University of Denver's Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies, authors Jonathon Moyer, PhD, Pardee Center director, Tim Sweijs, HCSS research director, Mathew Burrows, PhD, director of Scowcroft's Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, and Hugo Van Manen, a junior consultant at Ecorys, present "the Foreign Bilateral Influence Capacity (FBIC) Index," which looks to take an intersectional approach to evaluating the power and influence of global states. "The FBIC is tasked with identifying the key influencers in the international community, and analyzing those that register above or below their weight in the world, altogether clarifying where the United States and others stand in the international system," the Atlantic Council writes. "The FBIC Index is based on the interaction between states, as well as the relative dependence of one state on another.