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INTERVIEWS PODCAST: Harper Says Defense Spending Shouldn’t Determine Whether NATO Invokes Article 5

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.

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Harper: Defense Spending Shouldn’t Determine Whether NATO Invokes Article 5

Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, RAF Ret., former director-general of NATO’s International Military Staff, 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.

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Lockheed Martin’s Ulmer on First F-35 Delivery to the UK, Lot 11 Negotiations, ALIS

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.

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UK’s Dunne on Role of Defense in Britain’s Economy, UK-US Defense Relationship

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 at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT 2018 coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS. You can also listen to a podcast version of this interview, sponsored by L3 Technologies, here.

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Airbus UK’s Bennett on Brexit, A220 Deal with Bombardier, Defense-Industrial Strategy

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.

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INTERVIEWS PODCAST: USMC’s Beaudreault on Great-Power Competition, Amphibs, Dynamic Force Employment

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.

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USMC’s Beaudreault on Great-Power Competition, Amphibs, Dynamic Force Employment

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.

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Defense & Aerospace Business Report: Extended Edition [July 9, 2018]

On this extended edition of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we look ahead to the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels and President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discuss recent high-level resignations from UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet (including that of Foreign Minister Boris Johnson), preview the 2018 Farnborough Air Show and more. This week’s guests include Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the Atlantic Council, Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Teri Schultz, a freelance journalist who covers the European Union and NATO for Deutsche Welle and National Public Radio, and Francis Tusa, editor of the Defence Analysis newsletter.

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KippsDeSanto’s DeSanto on M&A Trends in Aerospace, Defense, Government

Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and manager director of the investment bank KippsDeSanto, discusses takeaways from the firm’s 2018 survey of merger-and-acquisiton trends in the aerospace, defense and government sectors during a June 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

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Spain’s Morenés on Unity’s Deterrent Power, Defense Spending, Global Security Challenges

Amb. Pedro Morenés, Spain’s former defense minister and its current ambassador to the US, praises the deterrent power of unity, and discusses the nuances of NATO’s two-percent-of-GDP defense spending rule, how the ask is received by Spanish citizens, what global security risks should be on NATO’s threat radar, the security implications of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on European aluminum and steel exports, and much more during a June 13, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was conducted at the 2018 EU Security & Defense Washington Symposium that was co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the European Union Delegation to the US.

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