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Bill LaPlante, PhD, senior vice president at the MITRE Corporation and former US Air Force acquisition chief, and Jamie Morin, PhD, vice president and executive director of the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and former Pentagon director of cost assessment and program evaluation, discuss challenges to the nation’s space enterprise, the need to upgrade Cold-War era architectures (especially in terms of sensing and missile defense), harnessing commercial innovation, balancing speed and efficacy while modernizing national security space — whether through acquisitions or development — and more during a Feb. 28, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The interview was conducted after the “Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum” event co-hosted by CSIS’ Aerospace Security Project and the Jacques & Associates consultancy.

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Mike Tierney, a consultant with the Jacques & Associates consultancy, analyzes the Trump administration’s FY19 space budget request, US Defense Department and US Air Force space-budget priorities’ long-term sustainability amid fiscal uncertainty, and more during a Feb. 28, 2018, interview at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The interview was conducted after the “Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum” event that was co-hosted by CSIS’ Aerospace Security Project and Jacques & Associates.

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Todd Harrison, Aerospace Security Project and defense budget analysis director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says the US Air Force needs to be more transparent with the US Congress and American public about milspace, and discusses space-budget challenges, takeaways from the Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum CSIS co-hosted with the Jacques and Associates consultancy on Feb. 28, 2018, and more in an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian following the event.

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James Hackett, editor of The Military Balance and senior fellow for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discusses the 2018 edition of the global assessment of defense trends, spending, programs and strategy during a February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

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Dan McCormick, general manager for advanced combat engine programs at GE Aviation, discusses the company’s $1 billion Adaptive Engine Transition Program contract with the US Air Force to mature its future engine for use in new aircraft or to be refit into existing jets, embracing additive manufacturing, tackling thermal-signature and power-generation challenges, and more in a 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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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss continuing congressional debate over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, the United Technologies Corporation’s tentative offer to split itself into multiple companies following its acquisition of Rockwell Collins, and more. This week’s guests include Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council, former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale, who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton (his thoughts are his own), Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

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In “Overview of the 2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense,” a Feb. 15, 2018, report from the Center for a New American Security, authors Susanna Blume, a CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessment Program fellow, and Lauren Fish, a research associate with the program, provide a bird’s-eye look at what the White House’s FY19 defense-budget request means for readiness, procurement, research, development, test and evaluation, the Missile Defense Agency, US Army, US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Air Force, and the US Defense Department, as a whole. “Even in these times of increasing budgets, DoD must still make tough decisions about what to prioritize and where to accept risk,” they write.

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Iain McKinnie, PhD, business development lead for laser and sensor systems at Lockheed Martin, and Tim Fouts, senior capture manager for the company’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (or HELIOS) system contract with the US Navy, discuss how the company secured the $150 million contract six months ahead of schedule, the weapon system’s capabilities and mission role, overcoming atmospheric challenges, and more during a February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/US Naval Institute WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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In “Power and Influence in a Globalized World,” a February 2018 joint report from the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, the University of Denver’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies, authors Jonathon Moyer, PhD, Pardee Center director, Tim Sweijs, HCSS research director, Mathew Burrows, PhD, director of Scowcroft’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, and Hugo Van Manen, a junior consultant at Ecorys, present “the Foreign Bilateral Influence Capacity (FBIC) Index,” which looks to take an intersectional approach to evaluating the power and influence of global states. “The FBIC is tasked with identifying the key influencers in the international community, and analyzing those that register above or below their weight in the world, altogether clarifying where the United States and others stand in the international system,” the Atlantic Council writes. “The FBIC Index is based on the interaction between states, as well as the relative dependence of one state on another.

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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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