Scott Thompson, partner and US Defense & Aerospace Leader at the PwC consultancy, discusses merger and acquisition trends, the impact of sequestration and fiscal uncertainty on US defense market activity and more during an April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.
Capt. Fred McLaren, PhD, USN Ret., author of “Silent and Unseen” and the former president of the American Polar Society, discusses the early years of the US Nuclear Submarine Force, his book “Unknown Waters,” the resurgence of great-power competition and much more in a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 AFCEA/USNI WEST conference and trade show in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Brig. Gen. John Evans, USA, commanding general of US Army Special Operations Aviation Command — also known as ARSOAC — says that last month’s US-UK-France joint strikes in Syria haven’t impacted his command’s strategy or readiness posture during a press conference at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville, Tennessee. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the historic meeting between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s respective visits to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, the release of the Pentagon’s Green Book, the Defense Innovation Board meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and much more. This week’s guests include Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, 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, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the Atlantic Council, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
Air Vice-Marshal Kim Osley, Royal Australian Air Force, military advisor at Team Defence Australia, discusses the US-Australia military relationship that dates back to the Battle of Hamel during World War I, his team’s goals at the 2018 Sea-Air-Space Symposium, the country’s new defense-industry strategy that was outlined in a recent white paper and more during a wide-ranging April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at this year’s symposium. Our coverage was sponsored by Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls industries and Leonardo DRS.
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.
Gary Gysin, president and CEO of Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, discusses its efforts to integrate its own technologies with others from elsewhere within the Boeing ecosystem and the US Navy to create a transparent oceans architecture, the advantages of the Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle’s new copper-composite coating, how we should think about other countries’ artificial intelligence and autonomous-system capabilities, how Silicon Valley can become technologically superior to China and more during an April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Sea-Air-Space Symposium near Washington. Our coverage was sponsored by the Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, we discuss French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, Trump’s upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the past seven days in defense and aerospace markets and more. This week’s guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Peter Flory, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy and former NATO assistant secretary general for defense investment, and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
Steve Sloan, LPD program manager at Ingalls Shipbuilding, discusses the shipyard’s LPD-30 sole-source Flight II contract, the ship’s capabilities, how it’ll differ from its predecessors, build-cycle updates on the LPD-28 and -29, and more during an April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Navy League’s 2018 Sea-Air-Space Symposium near Washington. Our coverage was sponsored by the Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
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.