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Lt. Col. Jerry Coburn, USA Ret., business development director at the Sierra Nevada Corporation, discusses his company’s collaboration with RADA and Ascent Vision on a vehicle-based, counter-small-UAS system, the SOFWERX technology incubator’s role in the system’s development, tackling the swarming-drone challenge and more during a May 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR.

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Jon Piatt, vice president for strategy and business development at L3 Insight Technology’s Warrior Sensor Systems business, discusses the company’s partnership with Air Tractor on the AT-802L Longsword aircraft, its US Army night-vision goggle contract and expansion plans within that market, driving information and systems integration within the L3 Technologies ecosystem, L3 ForceX software updates and the Warlock anti-drone system during a May 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR. L3 is one of our sponsors.

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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the national security implications of President Donald Trump’s new aluminum and steel tariffs, a weaker transatlantic alliance, the Italian Navy’s Fincantieri-built ITS Alpino anti-submarine warfare frigate that visited multiple US cities last week, Capitol Hill defense-budget deliberations, and the week in defense and aerospace markets. This week’s guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Christopher Cavas, naval analyst and commentator with Round Tower Productions, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale, PhD, (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his thoughts are his own), Sash Tusa of Agency Partners, and former Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim (who is now on the board of the Atlantic Council think tank). Fincantieri sponsored our coverage of the Navy League’s 2018 Sea-Air-Space conference and trade show.

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Remy Nathan, vice president for international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, and Dak Hardwick, the trade organization’s assistant vice president for international affairs, discuss proposals for improving the US Security Cooperation Enterprise that the organization drafted in response to President Donald Trump’s April 2018 update to the US Conventional Arms Transfer Policy and delivered to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 29, 2018, during an interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report. Nathan also discusses Trump’s newly-imposed tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and European steel and aluminum. The interview was conducted after a May 31 press conference with Eric Fanning, AIA’s president and CEO, Nathan and Hardwick at the group’s offices in northern Virginia.

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Gen. Victor “Gene” Renuart, USAF Ret., the former commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the US Northern Command, discusses the US-Canada military relationship, how NORAD needs to adapt to changing threats, the North American Free Trade Agreement’s security implications and more in a May 17, 2018 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Embassy of Canada in Washington. The interview was conducted after a panel commemorating NORAD’s 60th anniversary that was co-hosted by the embassy and the Wilson Center think tank’s Canada Institute.

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Gen. Thomas Lawson, Royal Canadian Air Force Ret., the former Canadian deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and former chief of the defence staff for the Canadian Armed Forces,discusses NORAD’s legacy, deterring Russia, the US-Canada military relationship and more in a May 17, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Embassy of Canada in Washington. The interview was conducted after a panel commemorating NORAD’s 60th anniversary that was co-hosted by the embassy and the Wilson Center think tank’s Canada Institute.

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Russ Lascink, head of business development for PARASIM at Systems Technology, discusses the company’s virtual-reality parachute trainer, using PC gaming software designed by Bohemia Interactive to let special operators rehearse top-secret simulation scenes without civilian involvement, making simulations believable and more during a May 24, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR.

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Gen. Hawk Carlisle, USAF Ret., president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association, discusses the significance of his organization’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla., the outlook for US defense spending, planning for sustainability, the importance of the US defense-industrial base and what to expect from reform, the US Defense Department’s relationship with industry, his priorities for NDIA and much more in a wide-ranging, May 23, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the event. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR.

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Andrew Sheldon, co-founder, chief technology officer and head of innovation at Evidence Talks — a UK-based digital-forensics firm and a US Special Operations Forces contractor — discusses the company’s SPEKTOR family of forensic triage tools (including the SPEKTOR Forensic Intelligence system and the tablet-based SPEKTOR Ultra) that allow users to quickly collect and analyze data from electronic and digital devices, data-recovery tips and more during a May 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our coverage is sponsored by FLIR.

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On this special episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, we bring you Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord’s keynote speech from the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, held May 21-24, in Tampa, Fla. Our SOFIC coverage was sponsored by FLIR.

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