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Dan Hart, president and CEO of Virgin Orbit, discusses the small-satellite launch market and how the company differentiates itself from its competitors, its LauncherOne rocket and the timeline for its inaugural launch, rocket production rates, corporate culture, risk management and more in an exclusive, wide-ranging February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the company’s Long Beach, California, headquarters.

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Gen. Mike “Mobile” Holmes, USAF, commander of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, says ACC’s immediate spending increases are being directed toward munitions, training and higher-end strength to boost readiness, and discusses the service’s pilot shortage and retention challenge, harnessing innovation, budget and modernization priorities, lessons learned from Syria, new ways to perform the JSTARS mission, and more during a wide-ranging, Feb. 23, 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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Lt. Col. Dave Harden, USAFR, chief architect at AFWERX, the US Air Force’s innovation cell, Lauren Knausenberger, Spark Tank director, and Master Sgt. Bartek Bachleda, USAF, a KC-135 boom operator with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, McConnell AFB, Kansas, and this year’s champion, discuss how AFWERX and the service-wide innovation contest it co-hosted with Airmen Powered by Innovation foster creative problem-solving in the Air Force, Bachleda’s winning idea — a platform that can reduce back and neck injuries in boom instructors, and slash the Air Force’s medical costs by $132 million per year — and more during a Feb. 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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Jack Crisler, vice president for F-35 business development and strategy integration at Lockheed Martin, discusses production-rate goals for the F-35 Lightning II fighter, lessons learned from international customer data and feedback, enabling communication between fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft, and more during a Feb. 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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Col. Mark Cancian, USMC Ret., senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Thomas Mahnken, PhD, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discuss CSIS’ new “Coping With Surprise in Great Power Conflicts” report and how the Pentagon can better react to the unexpected — whether it arises internally or on the battlefield– during a Feb. 20, 2018, interview at the think tank’s Washington headquarters.

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In his February 2018 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ International Security Program, Col. Mark Cancian, USMC Ret., a senior adviser at CSIS, argues that “the return of great power competition” after a seven-decade-plus hiatus makes dealing with strategic surprise an urgent matter. “This study, therefore, examines potential surprises in a great power conflict, particularly in a conflict’s initial stages when the interaction of adversaries’ technologies, prewar plans, and military doctrines first becomes manifest,” he writes. “It is not an attempt to project the future. Rather, it seeks to do the opposite: explore the range of possible future conflicts to see where surprises might lurk.”

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Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, says the US Air Force must build more fifth-generation capability so it will be able “to take on near peer competitors in the future,” and discusses modernization strategy, improving communication between the US military services, dealing with strategic surprise and more during a Feb. 21, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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Gen. Larry Spencer, USAF Ret., Air Force Association president and former US Air Force vice chief of staff, previews AFA’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium — including the Airmen Powered by Innovation/AFWERX inaugural Spark Tank competition — and discusses the new wave of Air Force innovation, the White House’s FY19 defense budget request and more during a Feb. 21, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian conducted in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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Jennie Wenger, PhD, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, discusses how the US military can harness Google search data to better address potential recruits’ concerns about enlistment and improve screening processes, attracting and retaining cyber talent, and more during a Feb. 9, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Santa Monica, California, headquarters.

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