Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, discusses President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, its current significance and how parts of it could be applied to contemporary US missile defense, the Iran nuclear deal’s future and more in a wide-ranging, March 23, 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.
Vice Adm. Andy Winns, USN Ret., Lockheed Martin’s regional executive for the Middle East and Africa, discusses customer feedback, the regional market prospects for the company’s Multi-Mission Surveillance Combatant ship and the F-35 Lightning II fighter, the challenges of indigenous defense development and more in a March 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.
Gene Cunningham, vice president for global sales at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses his priorities at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX) for Qatar and the greater Mideast region, the KC-46 tanker’s delivery timeline and market prospects, and much more in a wide-ranging, March 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at DIMDEX 2018. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.
Rep. Rob Wittman, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, discusses the omnibus spending bill’s implications for aircraft-carrier and Columbia-class submarine procurement, shipbuilding and Pentagon spending, says his subcommittee will include language in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to ensure a two-ship carrier buy, identifies critical elements for ensuring “certainty and predictability” in US Navy shipbuilding, and more in a wide-ranging, March 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian conducted at the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition Congressional Breakfast in northern Virginia.
Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses the organization’s House Aerospace Caucus briefing entitled “Rebuilding Aerospace Investments Across FAA, DoD, and NASA” that was held March 15, 2018 on Capitol Hill, his biggest takeaways from it and interagency cooperation, shares recommendations for Congress amid ongoing federal budget deliberations and more in an exclusive interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report conducted after the event.
Brian Cuccias, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding and executive vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries, discusses the four-year, $600 million upgrade to his shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., lessons learned from working on the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) that can be used for the USS Tripoli (LHA-7), maritime security, the International Homeland Defense & Security Summit and more in a wide-ranging, March 14, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at Ingalls’ shipyard in Pascagoula. Our coverage was sponsored by the Mississippi Development Authority.
Brig. Gen. (Sea) Tariq Al-Obaidli, Qatar Emiri Naval Forces, the head of Qatar’s international military cooperation authority, discusses how the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference fits into his strategy, his priorities for international defense cooperation, the four-country blockade against Qatar, the country’s strategic relationship with Turkey, Israel, Iran and more during a wide-ranging, March 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at this year’s event. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.
Fleur Thomas, a regional director with UK Department for International Trade Defence & Security Organization, discusses the UK security interests that UK DIT DSO worked to advance at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference in Qatar, the outlook for UK defense exports — including the Type 26 and 31 frigates — in the Gulf region and more during a March 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at this year’s event. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.
On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss ongoing congressional budget deliberations, NATO defense spending, CACI’s competing bid to acquire CSRA, the past week in the defense industry and more. Our guests include Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council, former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale, PhD, (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his thoughts are his own) and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners in London.
Gov. Phil Bryant, Mississippi governor and founder of the International Homeland Defense & Security Summit, discusses what inspired the summit, the significance of holding it in Mississippi, state-specific homeland security challenges and the climate change threat during a March 13, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the summit in Biloxi, Mississippi. The summit was hosted by the Mississippi Development Authority in partnership with the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, the Heritage Foundation and the Mississippi National Guard. Our coverage of the summit was sponsored by the Mississippi Development Authority.