Bill Lynn, CEO of Leonardo DRS, shares an update on the T-100 Training System entry for the US Air Force's T-X program competition, the tentative schedule for building the jet, defense-industrial strategy, transatlantic trade tensions, corporate growth and much more during a wide-ranging, August 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in northern Virginia. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, discusses the Elbit portfolio (including the Hermes 900 Starliner medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system and small UAS offerings like the SkyStriker loitering munition), defense-budget deliberations, corporate reinvention, transatlantic trade tensions and much more during a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

John Harris, CEO of Raytheon International, discusses global product demand, international sales growth, partnerships and much more in a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in a July 2018 interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

David Tessier, president of Esterline Mason, discusses his company's Mighty HaWC and Small HaWC ruggedized, unmanned-systems controllers, potential business impacts of transatlantic trade tensions and more during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Evan Hunt, senior business development manager for high energy lasers at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, discusses its successful efforts to use high-energy lasers to counter "small, lightweight, relatively slow drones" during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Bastian Giegerich, PhD, director of defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discusses President Donald Trump's meeting and resulting trade deal with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, key takeaways from Trump's meeting and press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the future of the NATO alliance, German defense spending and much more in a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

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.