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Fincantieri’s Bonetti on Naval Modernization Contract with Qatar, US Navy Future Frigate Competition

Enrico Bonetti, senior vice president of Fincantieri Naval Vessels’ international business unit, discusses the company’s naval modernization contract with Qatar, what makes the company’s amphibious transport dock and FREM frigate design attractive to international customers, what sets the company’s offering for the US Navy’s future frigate contest apart from the competition and more during a March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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Babcock’s Heley on Duqm Naval Dockyard Collaboration, Dry-Dock Services Demand

David Heley, head of business development for Babcock Oman’s Duqm Naval Dockyard and a former Royal Navy spokesman, discusses the company’s collaboration with the Omani government to handle warship repair and maintenance at the yard, its vision for the site’s future, the demand for dry-dock services and more during a March 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) in Qatar. Our coverage was sponsored by DIMDEX 2018.

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Defense & Aerospace Business Report Podcast [March 12, 2018]

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we give our Washington and market roundtables a break to highlight recent conversations with two major defense newsmakers. First, Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association and former US Army Secretary, discusses the potential industry implications of President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Then, Dan Hart, president and CEO of Virgin Orbit, discusses how the company differentiates itself within the small-satellite launch market.

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CNAS’ Blume, Fish on Trump Administration’s FY19 Defense Budget Request, Interactive Analysis Tools

Susanna Blume, a fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, and Lauren Fish, a research associate with the program, discuss the interactive defense-budget analysis tools they created for the think tank, takeaways from the Trump administration’s FY19 defense budget request, the rationale behind service-specific funding numbers, and more during a March 7, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington offices.

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AIA’s Fanning: Trump’s Proposed Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Risk Foreign Retaliation

Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, and former US Army Secretary, says President Donald Trump’s proposed steel and aluminum tariffs risk inviting foreign retaliation because the US “aerospace and defense industry” depends on exports, and such blowback would “really dry up the market for some of these products” and inflate prices for US consumers during a wide-ranging, March 8, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Fanning also discusses funding for the US Defense Department and NASA, and his priorities at AIA in the interview, which was conducted at the association’s headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

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CSIS’ Karako on the Trump Administration’s FY19 Missile Defense Budget Request

Tom Karako, PhD, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow in its International Security Program, analyzes the Trump administration’s FY19 missile defense budget request, says the US must increase its investment in advanced capabilities, stresses that the US needs “a space sensor layer for not merely missile warning, but tracking and discrimination,” the hypersonic weapons threat and more during a Feb. 28, 2018, interview at the think tank’s headquarters in Washington. The interview was conducted at the Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum, co-hosted by CSIS’ Aerospace Security Project and the Jacques & Associates consultancy.

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Ruppersberger on Defense Budget Priorities, State Department Cuts, Deterring North Korea

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Defense and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittees, says increased defense funding “will help us catch up” from a sequestration-induced national security slump and that “the degradation of the State Department has to stop,” and discusses defense budget priorities, the federal appropriations process, deterring North Korea and more during a March 6, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

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CSIS’ ‘Trump’s 2019 Missile Defense Budget: Choosing Capacity over Capability’

In “Trump’s 2019 Missile Defense Budget: Choosing Capacity over Capability,” a February 28, 2018, installment of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ CSIS Briefs series, Tom Karako, PhD, director of CSIS’ Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow in its International Security Program, and Wes Rumbaugh, an research assistant with the ISP, analyze the missile-defense side of the Trump administration’s FY19 budget request, identify its priorities and shortfalls, lend historical context and deem the proposed budget “inadequate” to combat “the threat for both ballistic and nonballistic missile attack.”

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CNAS’ ‘The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation’

“The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation,” a February 2018 joint report from the Center for a New American Security, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the University of Cambridge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and OpenAI, looks at the potential for artificial intelligence to be weaponized in the digital, physical and political security domains, predicts the future AI threat landscape and offers preventative recommendations for policymakers to combat the risk of misused AI. “This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of artificial intelligence technologies, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats,” the report reads. “We analyze, but do not conclusively resolve, the question of what the long-term equilibrium between attackers and defenders will be. We focus instead on what sorts of attacks we are likely to see soon if adequate defenses are not developed.

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