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On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Katherine Bennett, senior vice president of Airbus UK, discusses the challenge of carrying out Brexit while safeguarding international trade, the potential impact of “a hard Brexit” on the company’s business, its A220 jet deal with Bombardier, UK defense-spending projections, European market opportunities, defense-industrial strategy and more in a wide-ranging, July 13, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT 2018 coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Philip Dunne, Tory MP, the UK’s former defense-procurement minister and the author of the “Growing the Contribution of Defence to UK Prosperity” report, discusses the publication’s findings on how the arms industry contributes to the British economy, what the country’s defense-industrial strategy needs to look like, why the US-UK defense relationship matters, NATO and much more during a wide-ranging, July 13, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program, says he expects a Lot 11 agreement with the US government within about 30 days, and discusses the company’s June 6 delivery of the first four F-35 Lightning II fighters to the UK, program updates, modernization, sustainment, software stability, the Autonomic Logistics Information System (or ALIS), aircraft availability, and turnaround rates, projected unit pricing, potential new markets for the jet — including Finland and Canada — and much more during a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, RAF Ret., former director-general of NATO’s International Military Staff and current vice president of Charitable Trust Enterprises, says NATO’s invocation of the Article 5 commitment shouldn’t depend on a threatened nation’s defense-spending level and discusses how Baltic air defenses can be improved on both a local and alliance level to deter Russia, what went right and wrong at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, and much more in a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Welcome to the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews Podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies. On this episode, Lt. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, USMC, the US Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations, discusses his vision for a “whole-of-nation approach” to preparing for great-power competition, amphibious assault ships’ role in future combat and the dynamic force employment concept during a June 4, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The interview was taped after a panel discussion on Marine Air-Ground Task Forces innovation.