In this special report from the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow, Virginie Brizard, global communications manager at Bell, a Textron company, shares accessorizing insights for air-show attendees in a July 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS. Bell sponsors our Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast.

Tom Grundy, executive director of strategic customer solutions and support for Airlander at Hybrid Air Vehicles, discusses the Airlander 10 airship’s technology, capability, range and more in a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Bill Lynn, CEO of Leonardo DRS, shares an update on the T-100 Training System entry for the US Air Force’s T-X program competition, the tentative schedule for building the jet, defense-industrial strategy, transatlantic trade tensions, corporate growth and much more during a wide-ranging, August 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in northern Virginia. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, discusses the Elbit portfolio (including the Hermes 900 Starliner medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system and small UAS offerings like the SkyStriker loitering munition), defense-budget deliberations, corporate reinvention, transatlantic trade tensions and much more during a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

David Tessier, president of Esterline Mason, discusses his company’s Mighty HaWC and Small HaWC ruggedized, unmanned-systems controllers, potential business impacts of transatlantic trade tensions and more during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Evan Hunt, senior business development manager for high energy lasers at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, discusses its successful efforts to use high-energy lasers to counter “small, lightweight, relatively slow drones” during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Maj. Gen. Yoav Har-Even, IDF Ret., CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, discusses the $193 million US Army contract that it won in partnership with Leonardo DRS to provide its Trophy Active Protection System for use on Abrams tanks, the potential impact of transatlantic trade tensions on Israeli firms, US market opportunities and more during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association and former US Army secretary, discusses why free trade is vital to the aerospace industry, arms export policy, workforce concerns, the federal budget outlook, the trade organization’s educational mission and much more in a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview at the 2018 Farnborough Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Adm. Sir Philip Jones, RN, First Sea Lord and chief of naval staff of the Royal Navy, says the service is planning “a full carrier-strike operational work-up in UK waters in 2020” that will include “a full air wing” in preparation for its deployment of an HMS Queen Elizabeth-led carrier strike group in 2021, and discusses the future of maritime combat, US-UK naval collaboration, the Elizabeth’s upcoming US deployment and much more in a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.