This week, three great airpower minds — Major General Jonas Vikman, chief of the Swedish Air Force; retired Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, president of the Air and Space Power Association; and Dean David Deptula of the Mitchell Institute — look at today’s challenges and the next generation. Plus the top headlines in airpower!
Dr. Jim Lewis, the director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the cyber implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the “Chevron” precedent that gave US government agencies broad power to interpret legislation, prospects for more cyber-related congressional action, what needs to be on lawmaker’s to do list, the need to dramatically expand the cyber workforce, assessing the cyber elements of the two presidential campaigns, balancing freedom of speech with the need to counter disinformation in reigning in social media firms, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Keith Webster, the president of the defense and aerospace council at the US Chamber of Commerce — who last week hosted the defense industrial forum at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit —and Dr. Jerry McGinn, the director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, discuss defense industrial takeaways from the gathering of alliance leaders last week in Washington, how to improve industrial capacity, balancing Buy American with Buy Allied sentiments, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, Michael Herson of American Defense International, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim discuss the political implications of the assassination attempt on former President Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and whether efforts to dial down toxic political rhetoric will succeed as the GOP holds its nominating convention this week in Milwaukee; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses assassination attempt, takeaways from the NATO summit, Senate appropriations and authorization language, whether the House will embrace the Senate’s proposal to increase defense spending, a look at this month’s Treasury figures and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Rocket Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic advisory consultancy, join host Vago Muradian discuss another winning Wall Street week; assassination attempt on former President Trump; NATO’s 75th anniversary summit; accusation that Russia is planned to kill Rheinmetall’s CEO Armin Papperger; Boeing pleads guilty to avoid criminal prosecution as questions rise whether the deal will impact the giant’s defense business as the company’s 777-X jetliner makes a key FAA certification flight and its machinists prepare to vote whether to strike; top USAF officer expects Next Generation Air Dominance award by year’s end despite recent comments by senior service leaders; Air Lease reports earnings as Hexel, Textron and others prepare to report.
Before meeting with heads of state, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told leaders from the Allied defense industrial base that more than two-thirds of the Alliance’s 32 member nations were spending at least 2% of the GDPs on defense. “So there is a good market outlook for you.” To understand what the secretary general meant and this summit’s outcomes for the space domain, Laura Winter speaks with Malcolm Davis, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute focusing on space policy, security, strategy, and capability development; Brig. Gen. Bruce McClintock USAF (Ret.), RAND Corporation Space Enterprise Initiative lead, and former U.S. Defense Attaché to Russia; and John Neal, Executive Director for Space Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we dive into the US. Navy’s distributed maritime operations concept– something that navy leaders point to as a foundation for how the future Navy will be put together and how it will fight. Joining us to make sense of all of the mystery and buzz words associated with DMO is CIMSEC’s Dmitri Filipoff.
On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim join host Vago Muradian to discuss Senate’s appropriations figures and version of the National Defense Authorization Act; more House nonsense, calls for President Biden to step aside in the wake of his poor debate performance that raised questions about his fitness for office; a highly successful 75th anniversary NATO summit during which allies increased support for Ukraine, labeled China “the decisive enabler” for Russia’s war on Ukraine, brought together European and Indo-Pacific leaders, adopted a new industrial strategy to increase weapons production and defense cooperation, and Washington’s plan to return long-range strike missiles to Germany starting in 2026; Iran’s new president; and glimmers of hope for a deal that will end fighting in Gaza.
Every year, the world’s air and space chiefs gather in London to learn the latest, compare notes, and plan for the future. We’ll get an advance look into the major issues with RAF Director of Defense Studies Group Captain Paul Sanger-Davies, who is orchestrating the entire event. Plus top headlines in airpower. Powered by GE!
Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and Dr. Eugene Rumer, the director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discuss takeaways from NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington including pledges of long-term aid to Ukraine as well as new air defense and other weaponry, the future of the Atlantic Alliance after the November election, how European leaders would work with a new Trump administration, an update on the Ukraine war as US officials suggest Kyiv is no longer in danger of losing, prospects for ending the conflict, latest on battlefield capabilities including unmanned systems, how China is helping Russian disinformation across the global south, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s very different meeting with Vladimir Putin that indicates the Russian leader is far from isolated with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.