On May 20, 1951, during the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Capt. James Jabara scored his fifth and sixth victories aboard the F-86 Sabre, officially becoming the world’s first jet-to-jet ace.
On May 19, 2000, Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched as part of the STS-101 mission to repair and reequip the International Space Station, according to NASA. The overall mission clocked in at just under 10 days.
Jack Logan, PhD, electrical engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses low-cost, ultra-wideband phased array antennas and their potential applications for the US Navy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
Eric Gillman, research physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses dusty plasma, its potential applications for defense innovation, “Big Bang Theory” and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon on May 18, 2017.
Maj. Joe Minor, US Army, program manager for RDECOM Rotorcraft Degraded Visual Enviroment Mitigation (as well as an experimental test pilot), discusses the DVEM program with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
In his final video interview in uniform, Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, USAF, program executive officer for the F-35 Lighting II Fighter, provides a status report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program in an exclusive interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on May 11 at the program’s offices in Arlington, Virginia. This is the first video in a series, all excerpted from Bogdan’s exit interview with Defense & Aerospace Report.
Maj. Gen. Koen Gijsbers, Royal Netherlands Army Ret., general manager of the NATO Communications & Information Agency discusses the NITEC 17 conference in Ottawa, cyber trends and challenges, and the alliance’s strategy in the online domain during an April 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Jorge Benitez, editor of the Atlantic Council’s NATO Source blog, discusses priorities for President Donald Trump’s first-ever NATO summit, member-state troop-level projections for Afghanistan, and the potential diplomatic implications of the president’s intel leak with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington on May 17, 2017.
