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Rear Adm. Ken Perry, USN Ret., vice president for product integration and concept development at General Dynamics Electric Boat, discusses Virginia-class submarine production, the status of the Columbia-class program and the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), the state of the company’s workforce, and the company’s vision for future involvement with unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was held on April 4, 2017, during the Navy League’s 2017 Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland.

Vidar Skjelstad, president of Kongsberg Defense Systems and the Norwegian-American Defense & Homeland Security Industry Council (NADIC) discusses corporate growth priorities, America First rhetoric, domestic investment and hiring, and how to succeed in the North American market with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during an interview at the National Press Club in Washington on April 6, 2017, during this year’s NADIC Conference.

The Center for a New American Security’s Hannah Suh, program manager at its Asia-Pacific Security Program, and Harry Kresja, a research associate with the program, discuss their new report, “Phishing in Troubled Waters: Confronting Cyber Espionage Across the Pacific and the Strait of Taiwan” during an April 11, 2017 interview at CNAS headquarters in Washington.

Daniel Kostoval, the Czech Republic’s deputy minister of defence, discusses modernization, manpower, collaboration with NATO for defense planning, Russia and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Atlantic Council’s Washington headquarters on April 11, 2017.

John-Mikal Størdal, director general of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, discusses fostering defense innovation, Norway’s “triangle model,” maintaining a technological advantage, incentivizing change and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in an April 6, 2017, interview at the Embassy of Norway in Washington.

Jorge Benitez, PhD, editor of the Atlantic Council’s NATOSource blog and senior fellow at its Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, discusses US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s trip to Moscow during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Atlantic Council’s Washington headquarters on April 11.