On this Thanksgiving-week roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Cmdr. Guy “Bus” Snodgrass, USN (retired), CEO of Defense Analytics and author of the new book Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis and Richard V. Spencer, the 76th US Navy secretary.
Navy personnel officials this week tabbed 17,221 active-duty, full-time support and selected reserve sailors to move up in or into the petty officer ranks from this year’s fall advancement exam cycle.
With a total force cohort of 150,317 sailors deemed eligible to move up this fall, the total Navy chance to advance from the exam alone came in at 11 percent.
On this week’s Cyber Report, Maj. Gen. Gregg Potter, US Army Ret., Northrop Grumman’s lead corporate executive for Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground, discusses integrating US Army electromagnetic warfare, cyber and information operations with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The Cyber Report and our cyber coverage are sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we begin with Randy Tinseth, vice president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes and then discuss the week on world markets with guests “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group consultancy and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
Caroline Winnett, the executive director of Berkeley’s SkyDeck — the University of California Berkeley’s startup accelerator and incubator program, discusses how to find innovation and foster it and how innovation is coming from new sources including small nations like Armenia on the sidelines of the 2019 World Congress on Information Technology in Yerevan, Armenia, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Eric Fanning, the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses the decades-old US partnership with UAE, the budget outlook in Washington and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage at the Dubai Air Show 2019 was sponsored by 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 and EJ Herold, former NATO deputy assistant secretary general for defense investment now with the Center for a New American Security.
Navy’s top officer says that “Mission one” for every one in the Navy — “active and reserve, uniformed and civilian – is “operational readiness.” Such readiness starts, Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Mike Gilday wrote in NavAdmin message 254/19 signed out on Nov. 12, readiness starts with “being ready both in our personal and professional lives.”
Alan Davis, the chief executive of Raytheon Emirates, discusses the company’s growth strategy, opportunities, product offerings and partnerships with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Dubai Air Show, where our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Col. Al Worden, USAF Ret., the Apollo 15 command module pilot and Apollo 12 backup crew, discusses the new Astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarship and the Apollo 12 mission to the Moon in November 1969 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Dubai Air Show 2019. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Col. Worden, 88, passed away on March 18, 2020, after a brief illness.