Lieutenant General (ret.) Dave Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute, joins us with the latest on Venezuela, airpower in the National Security Strategy, and a season of change in the U.S. Air Force. And Bank of America’s Dr. Rocket Ron Epstein on the new executive orders limiting defense corporate buybacks and dividends. Plus this week’s headlines in airpower. All powered by GE!
A busy year in airpower ends, but there’s more to come. We look back and forward with John Tirpak, eminence emeritus of Air and Space Forces magazine, and Stephen Trimble, defense editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology. Plus this week’s headlines in airpower!
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This week, it’s China, China, China. How has the pacing threat changed in 2025, and what’s ahead in 2026? We hear from Dr. Brendan Mulvaney, Director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute at National Defense University, about systems, strategy, and more. Plus a bumper crop of #airpower headlines. Powered by GE!
From the F-47 to a comeback for hypersonics, it’s been a big year for airpower technology. Dr. Mark Lewis, former chief scientist of the Air Force and head of Purdue’s Applied Research Institute, rates 2025’s developments and picks some technologies to watch in 2026.
And in this holiday season, we learn about a small church with big meaning for the United States Air Force and Britain’s Royal Air Force, with The Venerable Dr. Giles Legood, Air Vice-Marshal and Chaplain-in-Chief and Archdeacon for the RAF.
Plus a few headlines in airpower. Powered by GE!
Secretary Hegseth has proposed a new way for the Air Force to buy its most complicated systems. Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall joins us to break it down, and examines defense reform generally. And what’s the latest with the Golden Dome missile defense project? We’ll get answers from Dr. Tom Karako, Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Plus a few headlines in airpower. Powered by GE!
Uncertain budgets. Acquisition reforms. Government shutdowns. What’s an industrial base to do? Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning, one of Washington’s most astute observers of government, is right in the middle of that storm. He tells us about it all. And we have headlines from a wowza week in airpower. Powered by GE!
Can automation actually replace pilots? A top general says one pilot is enough for lengthy global bomber missions. Bomber expert Mark Gunzinger of the Mitchell Institute looks at what the idea is and whether it’s a good one, and covers other significant issues in the bomber force. And we have this week’s airpower headlines. Powered by GE!
From CCA engines to hypersonics and basically everything in between, Rolls-Royce is building off a storied past with an eye on the future. John Kusnierek and Kaare Erickson, Senior Vice Presidents of their LibertyWorks technology operation and strategic campaigns respectively, tell us what they’re doing and how they do it. And of course, this week’s headlines in airpower. Powered by GE! (They make engines too.)
Major General Mark Mitchum has headed the Air Force’s Integrated Capabilities Command (Provisional) since its inception. As the Air Force moves its duties to a new organization and MajGen Mitchum concludes his career, we’ll look at what the effort to reform the Air Force has achieved, where it has yet to go, and what’s next for one of the service’s deeper thinkers. And this week’s airpower headlines. Powered by GE!
GE Aerospace is on the cutting edge of commercial jet engines, but what are they up to in defense these days? Vice President of Defense & Systems Engineering Darin DiTommaso lifts the covers on how they work and some of the innovative engines for vehicles — from CCA to hypersonic — that are on the way. And this week’s airpower headlines. Powered by GE!