On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we preview the Association of the United States Army’s 2017 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, and discuss dueling budget resolutions in the US Congress, the impacts of Catalonia’s independence referendum for European defense, Boeing’s acquisition of unmanned aerial systems maker Aurora Flight Sciences and more. This week’s guests include Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale (now with the Center for a New American Security)and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.