On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss COVID-19 and its effects on the Navy, its currently deployed ships and plans to grow, with guests Bryan McGrath of The Ferrybridge Group and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member). Our naval coverage is sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Bob Work, former deputy defense secretary, Distinguished Senior Fellow for Defense and National Security at the Center for a New American Security and the owner of TeamWork, LLC. In part one of our two part conversation, we discuss COVID-19 and get Bob’s take on how the national security world, our allies and adversaries are managing there way through the crisis.
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; Keith Flail, the vice president for advanced vertical lift systems at Bell .
On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Jay Healey, senior research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, discusses how cyber operations and warfare differs from other traditional warfighting domains.
On our Technology Report, sponsored by GM Defense, Bernard Theisen, the division chief for for combat support systems robotics at the Combat Capability Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center at Detroit Arsenal, Warren, Mich., discusses autonomy for battlefield systems with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Jerry McGinn, PhD, former deputy director of the Pentagon’s office of manufacturing and industrial base policy who is now the executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University School of Business, and Jim Hasik, PhD, a senior research fellow at the Center and a editor of the Atlantic Council’s Defense Industrialist blog. During our conversation we discuss harnessing commercial industry to address critical national needs like the current coronavirus pandemic, modern manufacturing processes that carmakers like GM can use to produce ventilators — in partnership with leading medical companies like Ventec — and supply chain fragility.
James “Hondo” Geurts, top acquisition official for the US Navy and Marine Corps, is working to coordinate government and industry efforts to keep the nation’s industrial base healthy and functioning during the coronavirus pandemic.
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we again dedicate the entire session to discuss the numerous worldwide implications of the COVID-19 virus. Our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners; Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based freelance reporter for National Public Radio and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member).
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners; NDIA CEO Gen. Hawk Carlisle, USAF Ret., Eric Fanning, the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association. In each of the three segments our guests discuss the economic impact of COVID-19 on the defense sector, what relief the Defense Protection Act and the proposed CARES Act might provide and finally what will be need to ensure a longterm recovery.
If the last week of social distancing and routine change have taught me anything, it’s that Adams, Kennedy and Churchill were dead-on. With the right mindset and willingness to take and give critical feedback, ample opportunity to learn and improve lies within this crisis.