The DownLink [Aug 14, ’22] Space-Based Solar Power and the U.K.’s Bet That Science Fiction May Become Science-Fact
Is this sci-fi? Or could there be a space-based solution to securing reliable, renewable, and…
PODCASTS
Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Aug 14, ’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 [Aug 12, ’22] Episode 61…Our Review of Gulf Shipyards
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… we are just back from a visit to some of the key shipyards on the US Gulf Coast – and what we saw was truly eye-opening. No one we visited is standing pat, all are investing in significant upgrades. We’ll talk about the trip in detail with our traveling partner, Sam LaGrone of USNI News.
Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.
Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Aug 12, ’22]
On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell,…
DEFAERO Strategy Series w/ CSIS’ [Aug 11, ’22] CSIS’ Mark Cancian
Col. Mark Cancian, USMC Ret., a senior advisor with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses how to structure productive wargames, their value, the importance of playing games repeatedly, the takeaways from his ongoing series of games focused on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan that could improve US strategy and capabilities acquisition, capabilities needed against China and Russia, examples of good and bad strategy and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This conversation is sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and devoted to the memory of one of the nation’s greatest national security strategists, Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s office of net assessment. The strategy series is not affiliated with the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation.
Cyber Report [Aug 10, 22] Hudson’s Ezra Cohen on Improving National Cyber Defenses
On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Ezra Cohen, an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who served as the acting under secretary of defense for intelligence during the Trump administration, discusses authorities needed to improve national cyber defenses, the logic of separating the National Security Agency and the US Cyber Command, cyber lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine and Chinese operations, role of US government in information warfare, and speeding security clearances with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 09, 2022] AIA’s Eric Fanning
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Eric Fanning, the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses takeaways from the recent Farnborough International Airshow, the outlook for US defense spending, implications of the CHIPS plus legislation and the climate-healthcare-tax package that cleared the Senate over the weekend and faces House passage, how to address inflation, supply chain and workforce challenges, improving the relationship between government and industry, and the evolving antitrust approach of the Biden administration as officials revisit Northrop Grumman‘s acquisition of OrbitalATK with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 08, 2022] Byron Callan’s Week Ahead & ASTRAIUS’ Kevin Seymour
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses China’s effort to intimidate Taiwan with military exercises around the island nation, analyses the defense and aerospace implications of the new climate-healthcare-tax deal as well as the Chips Plus legislation, and deeper analysis of trends in recent second quarter earnings, and looks at the week ahead; and Kevin Seymour, the CEO of ASTRAIUS, discusses how the UK-US based small and medium satellite launch company can revolutionize the market for truly operationally responsive space using military and civilian transport aircraft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
The DownLink [Aug 07, ’22] More Than Norms, Perhaps Space Needs Rules
Will norms of space behavior be enough to protect the $469 billion-dollar and growing space economy, the government-funded exploration and science programs, and the critical defense assets in orbit? Perhaps what’s needed is a bit stronger and binding. Like rules. Laura Winter speaks with Kevin O’Connell, the former Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce, under the Trump Administration; Mir Sadat, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an Adjunct Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute; and Julia Siegel, the assistant director of the Forward Defense practice in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Together they discuss Sadat and Seigel’s policy paper, “Space traffic management: Time for action”, which you can read here: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-rese…e-for-action/.
Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Aug 07, ’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.