The DownLink [Jun 08 , ’22] Should America’s Military Go to the Moon? – Part 2
In this part two episode of The Downlink’s coverage of the State Of The Space…
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Cyber Report [Jun 08, 22] Building the Right Cyber Workforce; Deep Dive on SBOMs & HBOMs
On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Technology, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses the new commission report he co-authored with Laura Bate — “Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director” — why the market hasn’t addressed the need for federal cyber talent, capabilities needed for the future, and how to improve recruiting, training, education and retention; and Betsy Soehren Jones, Fortress Information Security’s chief operating officer, and Tobias Whitney, the company’s vice president for strategy and policy, discuss industry feedback for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on software and hardware bill of materials — SBOMs and HBOMs — and how to improve the supply chain at the coding and component levels with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jun 07, 2022] Dr. Zack Krevor of Stratolaunch
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Zack Krevor, the CEO of Stratolaunch, discusses how the company — created in 2011 by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and Scaled Composites founder and aircraft design legend Burt Rutan — looks to drive innovation in hypersonic weapons development through rapid prototyping and testing, the company’s role in the development ecosystem, keys to speed and how US capabilities in the field compare against adversaries like China and Russia with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jun 06, 2022] Russo-Ukraine Update w/ Sam Bendett & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses who is also affiliated with the Center for a New American Security discusses Russia’s war on Ukraine and what’s next, Moscow’s strategy to use food as a weapon, impact of Western aid for Kyiv, and an update on unmanned warfare; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners on how to think of key developments over the past week including the Russo-Ukrainian war, defense supply chains, China’s assault on an Australian P-8 aircraft and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
The DownLink [Jun 06 , ’22] Should America’s Military Go to the Moon?
Commercial space companies involved in anything from cargo delivery to support NASA’s Artemis program, to space domain awareness, and even mining the moon and asteroids are preparing to go to the lunar neighborhood and set up shop. They’re wondering whether the Department of Defense is going to join them in the cis-lunar region to sustain friendly commercial activity, and are concerned about the future if it doesn’t. Laura Winter speaks with Namarata Goswami, an independent scholar on space policy and great power politics and co-author of the book “Scramble for the Skies”, and Brien Flewelling, Exoanalitic Solutions chief architect for space situational awareness and “innovation boffin”. This is part one of a two-part series.
Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jun 05, ’22 Business Report]
On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of AeroDynamic Advisory and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
CAVASSHIPS Podcast [Jun 04, ’22] Episode 51…Heavy Metal
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…it takes a lot of people to build a ship, and even more to build a giant warship, where thousands of shipbuilders each play a role. Author Mike Fabey spent quality time with some of the people building the world’s largest warship, the aircraft carrier JOHN F. KENNEDY CVN79, and talks about what it takes to do the job.
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Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Jun 03, ’22]
On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute and Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO who is now with the Center for a New American Security.
DEFAERO Report Daily Podcast [Jun 02, 22] MITRE’s Dr. Monique Mansoura on ‘Building a Sustainable Biopreparedness Industrial Base’
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Monique Mansoura, the executive director for Global Health Security and Biotechnology at the MITRE think tank, discusses the Federally Funded Research and Development Center’s report — “Building a Sustainable Biopreparedness Industrial Base” — as COVID cases rise and Biden administration prepares its $88 billion package to prepare for future biological threats and pandemics, lessons from the COVID pandemic to help prepare for future crisis whether naturally occurring or manmade, how to improve American and allied industrial capacity, specific necessary capabilities, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
DEFAERO Report Daily Podcast [Jun 01, 22] Russo-Ukraine Land Warfare and Vertical Lift Lessons Learned w/ Retired Maj. Gen. Jeff Schloesser
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Maj. Gen. Jeff Schloesser, USA Ret., the former director of US Army Aviation who commanded the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, now the executive vice president for strategic pursuits at Bell, discusses battlefield aviation lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine and how they might shape programs including the Arm’s Future Vertical Lift effort and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Schloesser is also a former president of the Army Aviation Association of America and Bell sponsored our coverage of AAAA.