n this week’s podcast, we discuss the defense budget implications of the collapse of Trump administration’s drive to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with a Republican healthcare alternative, congressional testimony by top defense officials, Wall Street’s defense spending expectations, the London terror attack and laptop travel ban and more. The Defense & Aerospace Business Report is sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron Company.
In this week’s podcast, we discuss the Trump administration’s proposed “skinny budget” and budget supplemental, the potential for a government shutdown, the 2015 external study commissioned by the Defense Business Board that revealed $125 billion in Defense-Department waste, strategies for increasing DoD efficiency, GCHQ’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s wiretap allegations, Angela Merkel’s Washington meeting, the aftermath of the Dutch elections, and more.
In this week’s podcast, we discuss the White House’s proposed cuts to the US Coast Guard and other agencies like the State Department, the “skinny” budget the Trump administration will submit to Congress on Thursday, the budget impact of larger troops deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan, commercial aircraft market trends, Brexit, Wednesday’s Dutch elections and financial performance of Dassault and Embraer.
On March 7, 1942, the first Tuskegee Airmen graduated from advanced pilot training at Tuskegee Army…
Welcome back to the Defense and Aerospace Business Report, our weekly podcast on the global defense…
On February 28, 1893, the US Navy launched its first-ever “first-class” battleship, the USS Indiana…
On February 21, 1885, President Chester Arthur dedicated The Washington Monument, an towering obelisk in…
In February 1861, U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin defied long distance and a snow storm to ensure that soldiers wounded in the nation’s first major battle with the Apaches at Apache Pass, Arizona, could get medical care. He then joined the fight and helped to break the siege, unwittingly carving his own path to the first-ever Congressional Medal of Honor in doing so.
