Author Vago Muradian

Michael Hafer, chief of KC-46 tanker global sales & marketing at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the status of the company’s KC-46A Pegasus tanker program for the US Air Force as well as production processes, features and export prospects for the jet with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted after a tour of Boeing’s 767 production and tanker integration facilities in Everett, Washington.

Marty Chamberlin, vice president for 737 manufacturing operations at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, discusses how the company builds 47 737 jetliners a month at its historic factory in Renton, Washington.

Fred Bruner, manager of P-8A Poseidon production programs and foreign military sales at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the US Navy’s new antisubmarine patrol aircraft program, including how a Boeing 737-800ERX jet becomes a military plane.

Capt. Jason Hamilton, USCG, commanding officer of USCGC Healy — America’s only medium-weight icebreaker — discusses a unique national capability that deploys on four-month national security and science missions to the world’s most unforgiving seas with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was aboard Healy at her homeport in Seattle in early December.

Maj Andrew “Punk” Stolee, Air Force Strategic Policy Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies who was the chief F-22 Instructor Pilot at the 433rd Weapons Squadron at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nevada, discusses the differences between operating 4th and 5th generation combat aircraft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.