Jim Khoury, the chief battery engineer at GM Defense, discusses battery technologies for Army vehicles and military applications with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Washington, DC. Our coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3Harris and Leonardo DRS.
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Andrew Hunter, the director of the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Defense & Aerospace Report contributing editor Christopher P. Cavas.
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Armed Service’s strategic forces subcommittee, and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy discuss the defense spending outlook, a look at the service’s 2021 budget request, cutting legacy programs to free resources for new initiatives, President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria clearing the way for the Turkish invasion of the region, whether sensitive US equipment has fallen into hands of Russian troops that occupied US positions after their hasty retreat, the implications of Turkey shelling troops from a fellow NATO nation, and how to address concerns from soldiers about the decision to abandon Kurdish forces who were instrumental in fighting ISIS with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 20199 conference and tradshow in Washington, DC. Our coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Bruce Jette, PhD, the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, discusses acquisition and service-wide culture change, intellectual property and manufacturing policies, program tradeoffs, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Washington, DC. Our coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS. The interview is the first of three parts.
Maj. Gen. David Francis, US Army, the commanding general of the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence, discusses future operating concepts and sustainment, Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft capabilities, what a replacement for CH-47 Chinook would look like, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 conference and tradeshow. Our coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Eric Perez, the director of international business development and sales at Meggitt Training Systems, discusses the high-fidelity FATS 300MIL virtual training system and “one world” connected training environment with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 annual meeting in Washington, DC. Our AUSA coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the most expensive ship ever built by the US government, and quite possibly by any government. No one knows the true price given the various computational ways to figure the costs of design and development of the ship and its various systems, building the carrier and buying thousands of installed systems and components, and getting all those systems to work as intended. The final bill isn’t in, but all things considered, it is safe to say it will be somewhere north of $15 billion.
Chris Johnson, the executive director of small military engines at Pratt & Whitney, discusses the company’s proposal to replace the TF33 engines on the US Air Force’s fleet of B-52H Stratofortress bombers with the company’s PW815 powerplant with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Shawn Warren, the vice president and general manager for large military engines at GE Aviation, discusses the program to re-engine the Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines on the US Air Force’s fleet of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and the merits of the company’s two proposals — the CF34-10 and the Passport engine — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Bill Lynn, the CEO of Leonardo DRS who served as the deputy defense secretary during the Obama administration, discusses the company’s highlights at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 conference and tradeshow, working with Futures Command, the defense budget outlook and improving cuber security with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our AUSA coverage was sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.