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Carl “Glen” Henshaw, a roboticist at the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology and principal investigator with the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative — or MeRLIn — discusses the program’s efforts to produce quadriped robots that can scout enclosed spaces and travel across rough terrain to scout before troops are sent in, future capabilities, design, stability and power-management challenges, and much more during a wide-ranging, April 24, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, conducted at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

Mohammed Al-Khater, CEO of Barzan Holdings — part of Qatar’s Ministry of Defence — discusses the company’s launch, structure, goals and more during a wide-ranging March 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence and Security Exhibition and Conference in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

Jerry Hendrix, PhD, Defense Program director and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Adam Routh, a research associate with the program, discuss CNAS’ “Building the Future Force: Guaranteeing American Leadership in a Contested Environment’ report, the impact of fiscal uncertainty on future-force planning, advice for Capitol Hill defense appropriators and the legacy of their late CNAS colleague and fellow report co-author, Shawn Brimley — who tragically passed away earlier this year at the age of 40 after a battle with cancer — during an interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report in Washington.

Samuel Bendett, an associate research analyst in the Center for Naval Analyses’ Russia Studies Program, discusses Russia’s use of unmanned systems, why its planned inclusion of unmanned vehicles in its May 9, 2018, parade commemorating the anniversary of World War II’s end is significant, its utilization of unmanned underwater vehicles off the coast of Syria and more in a wide-ranging, April 20, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s headquarters in northern Virginia.

Maj. Heather “Lucky” Penney, USAF Ret., a senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane owner, discusses the Royal Air Force’s legacy, the US Air Force-RAF relationship, the story behind her restored aircraft (named “Elizabeth”) and what she’s like to fly, and more during an April 15, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia.

Remy Nathan, vice president for international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses President Donald Trump’s April 19, 2018, national security presidential memorandum that updated the US Conventional Arms Transfer Policy and called for a review of unmanned aerial system (or UAS) export controls, how the policy will benefit the defense industry and US allies, and much more in a wide-ranging, April 19, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

David Rohrer, president and CEO of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, discusses the Royal Air Force’s 100th anniversary, Canada’s crucial role in the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber aircraft’s history, the story behind museum’s restored Lancaster — one of the only two airworthy ones left worldwide — and more during an interview at the National Air and Space Museum’s Great British Fly-In, held April 15, 2018, in northern Virginia.