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.
On today’s program, Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Djibouti’s ambassador to the United States as well as representative to the United Nations, discusses the importance of engaging with African nations to foster stability and security, the reluctance for nations to choose sides in an era of increasingly heated great-power competition, addressing turmoil in Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen, the role of the Economic Community of West African States in confronting the junta that deposed Niger’s legitimately elected President Mohamed Bazoum, and Djibouti’s openness to hosting military forces from France, America, Britain as well as China with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Varun Marya, the aerospace and defense lead for the Americas at the McKinsey consultancy, discusses the global business environment, business strategy, the need to pick winners and losers, accelerating DoD adoption of commercial technologies for military applications, how targeted Pentagon spending can attract commercial capital to solve defense problems, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the latest defense and aerospace headlines and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
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 as inflation ticks up and investors debate when the Federal Reserve will start cutting short-term borrowing rates intended to fight inflation, whether current inflation is high relative to historical norms, look at CAE, Garmin, RocketLab, Rheinmetall, Spire, Teledyne, TransDigm earnings, Romania orders F-35 Lighting II fighters from Lockheed Martin as Indonesia orders 18 additional Rafale’s from Dassault Aviation, F-16 order book grows as US prepares to clear jets for Turkey as the Fighting Falcon prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, update on Ukraine’s counteroffensive and Russia’s efforts to intimidate shipping in the Black Sea.
This week’s episode examines an experiment that will underpin the development of a crucial environmental technology that almost every spacecraft – crewed or not – and every off-world human habitat will employ. Laura Winter speaks with Purdue University’s Issam Mudawar, who is the Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Flow Boiling & Two-Phase Condensation Experiment (FBCE) for the International Space Station (ISS). The FBCE’s second module just arrived at the ISS.
On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss looming government shutdown and Ukraine supplemental, moves to impeach President Biden and continuing transformation of GOP, Ukraine’s offensive and what Kyiv needs from allies and partners including enforcing sanctions on families of sanctioned Russians, China intimidates Philippine coast guard ships, Beijing’s increasing presence around Taiwan and how Chinese leaders will respond to upcoming trip by island nation’s vice president to US and Paraguay, making sense of Biden administration’s new limits on US investment in China, Iran hostages released and Israel’s budget cuts for Arab programs.
Airpower doesn’t work if the pylons and racks are empty. Tyler Hacker of CSBA joins us to discuss his new report on future munitions and production challenges. And one Air Guard unit’s innovative outreach to get young people interested in things with wings. Of course, the hot headlines in airpower live here. It’s a blast!
On this week’s Technology Report, Mark Montgomery of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies discusses China’s persistent penetration of Japan’s defense networks in 2020 and again in 2021, US and Japanese efforts to help Tokyo eject Beijing from those networks, and how the disclosure of the intrusion by The Washington Post could impact US-Japan relations; and Tobias Whitney, the vice president of strategy and policy at Fortress Information Security, discusses the company’s partnership with the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) to generate certification standards for commercial and military uncrewed systems and how these standards could be applied to other fields with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
In the fifth of a six-part series on command and control, sponsored Ultra Intelligence & Communications, Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute think tank, and Greg Grant, a senior adviser with the Special Competitive Studies Project — the nonprofit that emerged from the wake of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence — discuss the status of the Pentagon’s top priority Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort, progress to date, what it will take to accelerate progress, role of technology and culture change, as well as lessons from history and the Ukraine war with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.