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CAVASShips Weekly Podcast
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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Admiral Lisa Franchetti is the US Navy’s top uniformed officer but – for now – she cannot be confirmed as the next Chief of Naval Operations. So, as acting CNO, where should she focus her efforts? Naval analyst Bryan Clark zeroes in on what can be done in the short term, where she might have a more immediate impact. We’ll dive into the specifics right after taking a look at this week’s naval news.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Air Power
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Spirit Aerosystems is well known for its commercial work, but they’re making a big move into the defense business, and the head of that operation tells us about it. And the Air Force’s futurist, retired Lieutenant General Clint “Q” Hinote, joins us to preview the Air Force Association Air Space Cyber conference coming up in a couple of weeks. Plus this week’s headlines in air power!

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On this week’s Technology Report, Dr. Paul McGinn, professor of chemical and molecular engineering at the Univeristy of Notre Dame, discusses claims that South Korea’s LK-99 material is superconducting at room temperature and ambient pressure, how the state of material science is advancing, and the impact that the engineering and scientific impact of recent CHIPS, infrastructure and climate measures; and Dr. Arun Seraphin, the executive director of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute, discusses his priorities and ETI’s inaugural conference in Washington Aug. 28-30 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

DEFAERO REPORT Daily Podcast
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On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Brian Schimpf, co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries, discusses lessons from the Ukraine war that are shaping his company’s strategy, how the Pentagon is changing the way it acquires capabilities, how the company is managing its supply chains to ensure responsiveness on demand and at scale, partnering with major contractors, DoD’s approach to the artificial intelligence that’s critical to increasingly autonomous systems, and a look ahead at the company’s growth prospects with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

DEFAERO REPORT Daily Podcast
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On today’s program, sponsored by HII, former DoD comptroller Bob Hale, the chairman of the commission to reform the Pentagon’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution system, discusses panel’s interim report and its proposed recommendations; Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses that latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the impact of China and Russia’s weakening economies, the US Air Force’s landmark blended wing body aircraft demonstrator program, and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Monday Business Report
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On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets, global impact of China’s economic woes on air travel, reports that IndiGo is preparing to order 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, BAE Systems’ proposed $5.6 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace, US Air Force’s $235 million contract to team led by JetZero that includes Northrop Grumman and RTX to develop and build a potentially game-changing blended wing body aircraft, potential defense budget implications as nations struggle with mounting climate disasters as security challenges loom, Washington clears Denmark and the The Netherlands to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 and transfer jets to Kyiv.

CAVASShips Weekly Podcast
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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…The Large Scale Exercise 2023, or LSE 2023 — the largest combination live and virtual warfighting exercise ever run by the US Navy and Marine Corps — ended on August 18. For ten days, more than 25,000 service members spread across 22 time zones worked through complex scenarios to test how the fleet can simultaneously synchronize global naval operations against multiple threats. We were on the scene in Norfolk and North Carolina to see some of the operations and talk with service members taking part. You’ll directly from sailors and Marines about what they’re experienced.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

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Starting as early as Monday, August 21, Russia and India will make attempts to land their separate lunar lander missions on the moon’s south pole, where water-ice – space’s version of gold – has been found. Traditionally, Russia and India have been fast friends on earth, but competing visions and national interests in the space domain are revealing fault lines. Laura Winter speaks with Namrata Goswami, an independent scholar on space policy and great power politics and co-author of the book “Scramble for the Skies”; and Pavel Luzin, a space, Russia, and international security expert, lecturer, and author, and also visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

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On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, our producer and co-host of the Cavas Ships podcast Chris Servello, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss a possible deal between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, prospects for a National Defense Authorization Act, the interim recommendations of the commission to reform the Pentagon’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process, Ukraine’s progress on the battlefield and whether Washington will step up aid now that White House has cleared Denmark and others to begin training Ukrainians on F-16 fighters, how the alliance should respond to Russian provocations on the Black Sea, Russia’s mounting economic woes, President Biden’s historic meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts at Camp David, China’s own economic troubles, and latest on Israel and Iran.

Air Power
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The first rule of Fighter Club… is that we talk about Fighter Club. With countries around the world working on their own fighter aircraft, Richard Aboulafia, the world’s preeminent aviation analyst, tells us how the U.S. created a market for them – and how the U.S. might profit off them. And we have this week’s headlines in air power.

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