On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his thoughts are his own), Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle.
Topics:
— Update on defense budget outlook
— Expectations about Trump administration’s 2020 budget request
— Report that administration may ask for $174 billion Oversea Contingency Operations funding to skirt Budget Control Act spending caps
— Military implications of Venezuela’s deepening political crisis
— Look ahead to next week’s NATO defense ministerial meeting in Brussels
