Gen. Hawk Carlisle, USAF Ret., president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association, discusses the significance of his organization’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla., the outlook for US defense spending, planning for sustainability, the importance of the US defense-industrial base and what to expect from reform, the US Defense Department’s relationship with industry, his priorities for NDIA and much more in a wide-ranging, May 23, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the event. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR.