Al Mosher, senior director for international strategy at Leonardo DRS Tactical Systems, discusses the company’s Mounted Family of Computer Systems (or MFoCs), how it helps the US military meet SWaP-C — short for size, weight, power and cost — goals, network security and more during an April 2018 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Association of the United States Army’s 2018 Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Sharpy, USAF, deputy commander of the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, discusses AMC spending priorities, the Boeing KC-46A tanker program, readiness, innovation and more during a wide-ranging, February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Gen. Mike “Mobile” Holmes, USAF, commander of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, says ACC’s immediate spending increases are being directed toward munitions, training and higher-end strength to boost readiness, and discusses the service’s pilot shortage and retention challenge, harnessing innovation, budget and modernization priorities, lessons learned from Syria, new ways to perform the JSTARS mission, and more during a wide-ranging, Feb. 23, 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Lt. Col. Dave Harden, USAFR, chief architect at AFWERX, the US Air Force’s innovation cell, Lauren Knausenberger, Spark Tank director, and Master Sgt. Bartek Bachleda, USAF, a KC-135 boom operator with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, McConnell AFB, Kansas, and this year’s champion, discuss how AFWERX and the service-wide innovation contest it co-hosted with Airmen Powered by Innovation foster creative problem-solving in the Air Force, Bachleda’s winning idea — a platform that can reduce back and neck injuries in boom instructors, and slash the Air Force’s medical costs by $132 million per year — and more during a Feb. 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Jack Crisler, vice president for F-35 business development and strategy integration at Lockheed Martin, discusses production-rate goals for the F-35 Lightning II fighter, lessons learned from international customer data and feedback, enabling communication between fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft, and more during a Feb. 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, says the US Air Force must build more fifth-generation capability so it will be able “to take on near peer competitors in the future,” and discusses modernization strategy, improving communication between the US military services, dealing with strategic surprise and more during a Feb. 21, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Gen. Larry Spencer, USAF Ret., Air Force Association president and former US Air Force vice chief of staff, previews AFA’s 2018 Air Warfare Symposium — including the Airmen Powered by Innovation/AFWERX inaugural Spark Tank competition — and discusses the new wave of Air Force innovation, the White House’s FY19 defense budget request and more during a Feb. 21, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian conducted in Orlando, Florida. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.