On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners and Chuck Dabuno, Boeing’s vice president and program manager of the T-7 Advanced Pilot Training System Strike, Surveillance and Mobility review highpoints for AFA’s annual Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow. In segment one Callan reviews today’s comments by Asst. Sec Will Roper, the Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, that the service has flown at least one prototype of its next generation fighter jet. In segment two Dabuno provides a T-7 program update and discusses the benefits of the Air Force’s approach to assembling, designing and testing new platforms using digital tools and how this will reduce cost, time and flexibility.
