On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Jerry McGinn, PhD, former deputy director of the Pentagon’s office of manufacturing and industrial base policy who is now the executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University School of Business, and Jim Hasik, PhD, a senior research fellow at the Center and a editor of the Atlantic Council’s Defense Industrialist blog. During our conversation we discuss harnessing commercial industry to address critical national needs like the current coronavirus pandemic, modern manufacturing processes that carmakers like GM can use to produce ventilators — in partnership with leading medical companies like Ventec — and supply chain fragility with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our podcast is sponsored by Bell and GM Defense sponsors our technology coverage.
