On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, USMC Ret., senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation on the new Marine Corps Force Design 2030 and Bryan Clark, now of the Hudson Institute, on the recently released Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments report “Mosaic Warfare: Exploiting Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems to Implement Decision-Centric Operations.”
Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood, US Army, the US Army’s director of hypersonics, directed energy, space and rapid acquisition, discusses how his team is operating remotely despite the coronavirus pandemic, developing a new generation of hypersonic weapons, Chinese and Russian capabilities and the keys to rapid acquisition success with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest are Harrison Schram and Peter Kouretsos of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, two of the authors of “COVID-19 Analysis and Policy Implications”– a look at both the immediate and long-term policy implications of the virus, with a focus on how it will impact today’s U.S. Department of Defense as well as future American military capabilities.
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, Michael Speca, the president of Ardalyst, and Josh O’Sullivan, a Navy veteran who’s the company’s chief technology officer, discuss how to ensure security while working from home during the coronavirus crisis with Defense & Aerospace Editor Vago Muradian.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime history professor at Campbell University and our very own Christopher P. Cavas to discuss the effect of Covid-19 on maritime logistics and security–worldwide shipping, cruise lines, ports and port services, as well as keeping U.S. Navy ships supplied at sea.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Vice Adm. Rick Hunt, USN Ret., president of Fincantieri Marinette Marine on COVID-19 impacts to operations and supplier base; the on-going process to select the Navy’s future frigate (FFG(x)), and as the current President of the Surface Navy Association, what professional organizations can do to stay connected to their members. Our naval coverage is sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine.
It is in this spirit that the U.S. Navy should immediately reinstate Captain Crozier as USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, a possibility left open by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday.
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we speak with Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, on the recent resignation of former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, COVID-19 effects on military readiness, early looks at coronavirus lessons learned and what effects the pandemic will have on future defense budgets and posture.