On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Michael Bayer, the chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association, and Arnold Punaro, the former NDIA chairman and Senate Armed Services Committee staff director, discuss a long-term approach to balancing US spending and revenue to avoid future debt default dramas, outlook for reforms and defense spending, priorities for incoming chairman and service chiefs, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., “unprecedented” hold on promotions, and report card on Biden administration’s filling of political appointee jobs with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
