On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute and Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute.
Topics:
— Impact of President Trump’s decision to use executive actions to circumvent impasse with congressional Democrats over fourth stimulus package
— Implications of stimulus standoff on defense
— Outlook for Pentagon’s request for $11 billion to cover defense contractors’ coronavirus-related costs
— Look at Treasury Department’s update on outlays and deficits
— National security ramifications of former Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as his running mate
— What the recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will mean for the region