Susanna Blume, a fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, and Lauren Fish, a research associate with the program, discuss the interactive defense-budget analysis tools they created for the think tank, takeaways from the Trump administration’s FY19 defense budget request, the rationale behind service-specific funding numbers, and more during a March 7, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington offices.