On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bryan McGrath of The Ferrybridge Group, Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, and Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
Topics:
— Implications of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s decision to fire Adm. Bill Moran as the next chief of naval operations
— Analysis of Spencer’s rationale for the decision
— Vice Adm. Mike Gilday, director of the Joint Staff, as America’s next CNO
— Raising the US debt limit
— Lifting Budget Control Act spending caps
— Update on the National Defense Authorization Act
— Lockheed Martin’s decision to keep open its Sikorsky facility in Coatesville, Pa.
