On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and Mathew J. Burrows, director, Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative at The Atlantic Council.
Topics:
— Prospects for a “skinny” NDAA and a full-year CR
— Sticking points and areas for compromise in the authorizations and appropriations processes
— Impact of a full-year CR
— Air Force plans for future budget shifts and legacy platform reductions to execute the National Defense Strategy
— What happens to defense spending depending on whether Democrats or Republicans win in 2020
— Atlantic Council’s Mathew Burrows on his updated “Global Risks 2035: Decline or New Renaissance?”
