Col. James “Hondo” Geurts, USAF Ret., assistant secretary of the US Navy for research, development and acquisition, discusses how the service sped its MQ-25 Stingray, Standard Missile-6, C4ISR and Long Range Anti-Ship Missile programs, learning from SOFWERX, shipbuilding strategy, priorities and innovation, and the White House’s FY19 defense budget request during a Feb. 8, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/US Naval Institute WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Watch Geurts’ full interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian here, and check out video of the press gaggle that followed his speech here.
