On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle and Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the German Marshall Fund and John Tirpak of Air Force Magazine.
Topics:
— A look at defense appropriations and authorization bills and outlook for the National Defense Authorization Act
— Prospects for another government shutdown
— Administration and congressional steps to move Overseas Contingency Operations funding back tiny the base budget without cutting programs
— John Bolton’s departure as national security adviser
— Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s trip to Europe can call on allies to pick up cost of military construction projects cut by the Trump administration to pay for wall between United States and Mexico
— US support for Ukraine and Moscow’s decision to release Ukrainian prisoners
— What to expect from the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber conference and trade show next week
