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Staff Brig. (Sea) Abdulbaqi Al-Ansari, Qatar Emiri Naval Forces, chairman of the Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) 2018, discusses the event’s history, growth, role and significance amidst a four-country blockade of Qatar by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, how the Qatari Armed Forces are working to absorb new technology and more during a March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at this year’s event. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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Lt. Gen. Jeff “Cobra” Harrigian, USAF, commander of US Air Forces Central Command, discusses innovation priorities, the next phase in the fight against ISIS, lessons learned from urban combat in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, the outlook for establishing a new Air Expeditionary Wing in Iraq, AFCENT’s relationship with its Russian counterparts, and more in a wide-ranging, March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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Enrico Bonetti, senior vice president of Fincantieri Naval Vessels’ international business unit, discusses the company’s naval modernization contract with Qatar, what makes the company’s amphibious transport dock and FREM frigate design attractive to international customers, what sets the company’s offering for the US Navy’s future frigate contest apart from the competition and more during a March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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David Heley, head of business development for Babcock Oman’s Duqm Naval Dockyard and a former Royal Navy spokesman, discusses the company’s collaboration with the Omani government to handle warship repair and maintenance at the yard, its vision for the site’s future, the demand for dry-dock services and more during a March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we give our Washington and market roundtables a break to highlight recent conversations with two major defense newsmakers. First, Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association and former US Army Secretary, discusses the potential industry implications of President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Then, Dan Hart, president and CEO of Virgin Orbit, discusses how the company differentiates itself within the small-satellite launch market.

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Susanna Blume, a fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, and Lauren Fish, a research associate with the program, discuss the interactive defense-budget analysis tools they created for the think tank, takeaways from the Trump administration’s FY19 defense budget request, the rationale behind service-specific funding numbers, and more during a March 7, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington offices.

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Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, and former US Army Secretary, says President Donald Trump’s proposed steel and aluminum tariffs risk inviting foreign retaliation because the US “aerospace and defense industry” depends on exports, and such blowback would “really dry up the market for some of these products” and inflate prices for US consumers during a wide-ranging, March 8, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Fanning also discusses funding for the US Defense Department and NASA, and his priorities at AIA in the interview, which was conducted at the association’s headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

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Tom Karako, PhD, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow in its International Security Program, analyzes the Trump administration’s FY19 missile defense budget request, says the US must increase its investment in advanced capabilities, stresses that the US needs “a space sensor layer for not merely missile warning, but tracking and discrimination,” the hypersonic weapons threat and more during a Feb. 28, 2018, interview at the think tank’s headquarters in Washington. The interview was conducted at the Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum, co-hosted by CSIS’ Aerospace Security Project and the Jacques & Associates consultancy.

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Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Defense and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittees, says increased defense funding “will help us catch up” from a sequestration-induced national security slump and that “the degradation of the State Department has to stop,” and discusses defense budget priorities, the federal appropriations process, deterring North Korea and more during a March 6, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

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