Mauricio Meschoulam, PhD, professor at the Ibero-American University (also known as UIA) in Mexico, discusses US-Mexico political and trade relations under President Donald Trump, NAFTA and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, PhD, the former Iranian ambassador and who now works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University and serves on Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, discusses Iran’s foreign policy, how its definition of terrorism contrasts with the West’s, the Iran nuclear deal and more during a Dec. 7, 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Press Club in Washington. The interview was conducted after the Turkish Heritage Organization’s “Lessons from the Syria Crisis: Old Rivalries, New Dynamics” panel.
Jarkko Savenius, marketing manager at Finland’s Patria, discusses the Patria AMVxp armored vehicle, global market opportunities and corporate investment during a September 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Defence and Security Equipment International conference and trade show in London. Our coverage was in partnership with DSEI and Clarion Events.
READ THE REPORT –In “Analysis of the FY 2018 Defense Budget,” Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Seamus Daniels, program coordinator and research assistant for defense budget analysis at CSIS, break with tradition and look at next year’s military spending through a fresh set of lenses. “Given the somewhat unusual circumstances of the FY 2018 budget cycle, this year’s budget analysis takes a different approach,” they write. “Instead of looking at the details of what the budget request funds or does not fund, it focuses on long-term trends in the defense budget and force structure and identifies key issues facing the Defense Department as it prepares for the FY 2019 budget cycle.” Learn more about the report here.
On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss congressional budget deliberations following the passage of a two-week continuing resolution, the tax reform debate, top defense officials’ recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee 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, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, PhD, R-Wisc., a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, and a member of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, discusses congressional budget deliberations, the national debt, Pentagon spending priorities, the US Navy’s shipbuilding strategy, America First, immigration and more in a Dec. 2, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the 2017 Reagan National Defense Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
The Defense & Aerospace Report team (and some very special guests) would like to wish our viewers the happiest of Army-Navy Game days with this exclusive spirit video. Thanks for watching, and may the football odds be ever in your team’s favor.
Lee Grubbs, director of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Mad Scientist Initiative, discusses the program’s mission and work, calls artificial intelligence, autonomy, robotics and biological enhancement the technologies that will most profoundly shape the US Army of tomorrow, and more during a Dec. 6, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Atlantic Council’s US Army Futures Forum in Washington.
Maj. Gen. Bill Hix, USA, the US Army’s outgoing director of strategy, plans and policy, and deputy chief of staff G-3/5/7, discusses the service’s upcoming Futures and Modernization Command, technology’s importance to the US Army, lessons learned from China’s and Russia’s use of defense technologies, the 2017 Army-Navy Game and more during a Dec. 6, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Atlantic Council’s US Army Futures Forum in Washington.
In “Battlefield Singularity: Artificial Intelligence, Military Revolution, and China’s Future Military Power,” a December 2017 report from the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program, adjunct fellow Elsa Kania asserts that the US-China artificial intelligence race will have defense implications. “As the U.S. and China compete to innovate in AI, the trajectories of their respective advances will impact the future military and strategic balance,” her executive summary reads. Kania recommends that the US military focus on non-technical defense elements to be ready for a future in which it may not hold the kind of advantage it does today, as well as risk mitigation strategies in case a global AI race shakes up “arms race dynamics.”