Kenneth Maum, business development director at Saab Sensis, discusses the company’s air-traffic management product portfolio, harnessing information, and more during a November 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2017 Dubai Airshow. Our coverage was sponsored by FLIR Systems.
Adm. Paul Zukunft, USCG, commandant of the US Coast Guard, says it “must be funded as a military service,” that the “recurring, five-percent annualized growth in” operating expenditures and “two-billion dollar floor” for acquisition he’s requesting will put the Coast Guard on equal footing with the rest of the US military’s services, and more during a Dec. 14, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at USCG headquarters in Washington.
Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, shares recommendations for US strategy in Syria, discusses Iran’s future 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.
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.