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Maj. Gen. Mark Smith, USAF Auxiliary, CEO and national commander of the Civil Air Patrol – US Air Force, and a retired USAF colonel, discusses CAP’s history, roles in supporting defense, disaster response and homeland security, recruitment challenges and more during a September 2017 interview at the Air Force Association’s 2017 Air, Space & Cyber conference and trade show in National Harbor, Maryland. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

Frank Willis, vice president for advanced technologies at the Physical Optics Corporation (also known as POC), discusses how a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter crash lead to the development of its Micro Weather Sensor, the product’s capabilities, life span, potential commercial applications and more during a September 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2017 Air, Space & Cyber conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

Lt. Gen. Mark “Hit Me” Nowland, USAF, the US Air Force’s chief of staff for operations, discusses the threat picture facing the United States, Chinese and Russian capabilities of concern, the service’s force mix, fostering innovation and more in a Jan. 4, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted following an event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in Washington.

Max Brooks, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and acclaimed author of “World War Z,” discusses the nation’s civil-military divide, the importance of soft power and human rights for US global influence, military education, his new book, “Minecraft: The Island,” and more in a wide-ranging, recent interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington office.

Robin Shepherd, senior advisor at the Halifax International Security Forum, discusses European perceptions of President Donald Trump after his first year in office, Europe’s nationalist and populist movements, and more during a November 2017 interview at the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Harry Geier, director of marketing and development at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, discusses its still-airworthy Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter — the only such aircraft still flying with its original engineer — which was captured by US forces on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, during a Nov. 28, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.