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Frank Kendall, former US under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics during the Obama administration, discusses his concerns with the Pentagon’s recent report detailing how to break up his old office into two parts, shares advice for his successor, former Textron Systems CEO Ellen Lord, and more during an Aug. 4, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at Kendall’s northern Virginia home.

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Heather Wilson, PhD, Secretary of the US Air Force, says predictability is the service’s greatest need, discusses the proposed FY18 federal budget’s implications for readiness and modernization, announces “the details of a tiered aviation bonus system” designed to incentivize pilot retention “where we need them most,” and more at the Air Force Association’s AFA Breakfast Series: Capitol Hill Edition event on June 5, 2017. The event was held at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington.

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Dave Pirozzo, a computer engineer with the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Engineering and Development Center, discusses the center’s efforts to boost vehicle autonomy to increase manpower and keep soldiers out of harm’s way during a June 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the British Embassy in Washington. The interview was conducted during the embassy’s Autonomy & Innovation Across the Defence, Security and Civil Sectors – Demonstration event.

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In “A Blueprint for New Sanctions on North Korea,” a new report from the Center for a New American Security, co-authors Edward Fishman, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Peter Harrell, an adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, and Elizabeth Rosenberg, CNAS senior fellow and director of its Energy, Economics, and Security Program, present a playbook for potential US sanctions on North Korea. “As Congress and the executive branch consider ways to combat the North Korean threat, this report offers policymakers an analysis of the situation, an assessment of the successes and failures of sanctions imposed to date, and options for increasing Pyongyang’s economic isolation,” they write. “With enhanced economic leverage, the United States will be better placed to address North Korea’s destabilizing influence and lay the table for potential nuclear diplomacy.”

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In the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’ “Overview of the FY 2018 Defense Budget Request,” Katherine Blakeley, CSBA research fellow, breaks down the Trump administration’s proposed defense budget for the coming fiscal year. “This proposed $603 billion in discretionary base national defense spending would be $51.8 billion dollars more than the $551 billion the Obama administration requested in FY 2017, an increase of 9.4 percent,” she writes in the report’s overview. “The requested $603 billion is also $54 billion, or 10 percent, over the caps on national defense spending for FY 2018 established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), as amended.”

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Shannon Green, director of the Center for Strategic and International Success’ Human Rights Initiative, and Mark Schneider, a senior, non-resident adviser to the initiative and to the think tank’s Americas Program, discuss their takeaways from Vision of Humanity’s 2017 Global Peace Index during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian following the report’s June 7, 2017, launch at CSIS headquarters in Washington.

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Col. Joseph “Yossi” Horowitz, Israeli Air Force Ret., director of marketing for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems’ Air Superiority Systems Division, discusses the company’s Drone Dome system, designed to “detect and defeat” the drone threat “at relatively long ranges,” and the technology behind it — such as its light beam and phased-array radar — during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Paris-Le Bourget Airport during the 2017 Paris Air Show. Defense & Aerospace Report’s Paris Air Show coverage is sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron Company, we discuss ongoing FY18 defense budget deliberations on Capitol Hill, the impact of the week in international security provocations on US defense spending, President Donald Trump’s defense-industrial base executive order, the potential implications of American sanctions on global powers on the EU-US relationship and more. This week’s guests include Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council, Bob Hale of the Center for a New American Security’s Defense Strategies and Assessments Program (and former Pentagon comptroller, Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Success, and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

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In a July 2017 report published by the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies entitled “An Operational Imperative: The Future of Air Superiority,” Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, USAF, reflects on his work as part of an interdisciplinary team charged with reviewing “options to gain and maintain continued control of the air,” according to a press release. Grynkewich writes that the US Defense Department needs to change its approaches to data and acquisition to achieve “air superiority in the future.”

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Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, USAF,  commander of US Air Force Materiel Command, discusses agile software development’s criticality to the work of both the US Air Force and US Defense Department — especially in the face of rising weapons-systems software costs — and barriers to its implementation during the Mitchell Space Breakfast Series’ “Keeping a Decisive Edge — Agile Software Development in the USAF” event, presented by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on July 14, 2017, at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington.

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