On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Bryan McGrath of The Ferrybridge Group on unsafe and unprofessional naval interactions, President’s Trump’s tweet signaling a change in how the US might handle future interactions with Iran and the effectiveness and legitimacy of passing policy via social media.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, US Army, director of of the US Army’s cross-functional long-range precision fires team, on COVID-19 impacts, the future of long-range weapons and hypersonic weapons, developing systems with joint and industry partners, as well as staying ahead of US adversaries.
As the USS Theodore Roosevelt saga winds down, the incentive to get back to “business as usual basis” builds. Were that to happen, it would be a colossal error.
The TR incident comes in the wake of too many seeming errors, mistakes and scandals that have befallen the Navy. These demand that crucial questions must now be addressed about the overall condition of the Navy that have led to what some including the president and the secretary of Defense believe is a service that is badly adrift.
Fortunately, the relatively new Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, has not been tainted by any of the scandals or problems and therefore is the right person at the right time to dig more deeply into resolving these symptoms of naval ill-health.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest are Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners and in segment two, Patrick Cronin, PhD, the chair for Asia-Pacific Security at the Hudson Institute and film producer and Hong Kong democracy activist Andrew Duncan. Callan discusses today’s Pentagon press briefing by the DoD’s acquisition chief Ellen Lord, who said she expects to see delays in major defense programs due to COVID-19 disruptions. Cronin and Duncan discuss China’s recent assertive actions across Asia and how Washington and its allies should respond.
On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests include “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group consultancy and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Jay Healey, senior research scholar at…
Welcome to the DEFAERO Andy Marshall Strategy Series, our weekly discussion with leading thinkers on security, business and technology, sponsored by Bell. Our series is named after Andy Marshall, one of America’s greatest strategic minds, to mark the one year anniversary of his passing. Our guest is Eliot Cohen, Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS and former Counselor of the Department of State.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Rear Adm. Casey J. Moton, PEO, Unmanned and Small Combatants on COVID-19 lessons, LCS progress and unmanned and small combatant projects currently in work.
In what may be a historical first, the submarine Delaware (SSN 791) was officially commissioned into service in the United States Navy April 4 while underwater, a top Navy official told reporters Thursday.
“We commissioned USS Delaware in a rare form,” said James “Hondo” Geurts, the service’s top acquisition official. “It’s probably fitting for a submarine named after the first state [that] it was the first commissioning we’ve ever done underwater.
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Col. James “Hondo” Guerts, USAF Ret., the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, discusses acquisition agility, manned and unmanned systems and Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International.