On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Air Power podcast, sponsored by GE Aerospace, co-hosts JJ Gertler and Vago Muradian analyze the news of the week and interview their first guest, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall who discusses the implications of a full-year continuing resolution and budget cuts — warning they would only help China as the service embarks on a generational modernization effort — lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine, making the case for the importance of air power, the need to bolster the munitions industrial base for current programs like JASSM ER and LRASM as well as future hypersonic weapons, re-invigorating the Air Force’s high intensity warfighting culture, and more.
