On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Faine Greenwood of Tarentum Consulting and contributor to Slate and Foreign Policy who is an expert on commercial drones discusses how commercially available systems are being used on the battlefield by both Ukraine and Russia, how they are being used, future capabilities and how governments can better defend themselves against weaponized commercial systems; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses takeaways from the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and tradeshow last week, implications of US concerns with China’s civil-military fusion strategy, November elections and how they may shape the defense budget outlook, a look ahead to earnings and the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Gabe Camarillo, the 35th under secretary of the US Army, discusses lessons learned from Russia’s war on Ukraine, replenishing weapons stocks, capabilities the service is developing for future conflicts, the new Field Manual 3.0, the role of the US Army and Air Force in America’s long-range precision strike architecture, the service’s Pacific role and case against shrinking the force to cover air and naval capacity, and the persistent concern that defense spending could become a casualty of congressional debt ceiling negotiations with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, private equity veteran Philip Bilden and former DIU chief Raj Shah discuss the new venture capital fund they founded, Shield Capital, on the $120 million fund’s first anniversary, the firm’s investments in more than 70 companies, technology areas of focus, how the teams picks the right investment candidates, the fund’s partnership with L3Harris, the concept of “clean capital” and how the VC community can be harnessed for more quickly field critically needed capabilities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and the Center for a New American Security discusses Russia’s war on Ukraine and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the United States Army’s conference and tradeshow and a looks at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

In the first of a six-part series on command and control, sponsored Ultra Intelligence & Communications, Dr. David Pustai, the company’s senior vice president and chief technology officer, discusses technological advances that will enable the realization of the Pentagon’s top priority Joint All-Domain Command and Control program, the role of cognitive sciences in future battle networks, how automation will change decision making, trust and increasingly automated systems, how military culture and training have to change to take fullest advantage of enabling technological advances, how to interconnect existing and future systems into a resilient battle network, the role of the cloud and improving security and resilience in contested communications environments with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Patrick Cronin, the Asia-Pacific security chair at the Hudson Institute think tank, discusses North Korea’s ballistic missile test over Japan, what’s next as Pyongyang also prepares for a nuclear test, how Washington and its allies should respond, and countering the axis among China, Russia and North Korea; and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., a former director of operations at the US Indo-Pacific Command who is now the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the director of the bipartisan Cyber Solarium 2.0 Commission, discusses the threat posed by North Korea’s missiles, the importance of better US and allied air and missile defenses in the Indo-Pacific, and how to help the US Air Force execute its new mission to defense the United States against cruise missile threats with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

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On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dave Deptula, a retired US Air Force lieutenant general who is now the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace studies, discusses key takeaways from the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow, Raanan Horowitz, the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, discusses the strategic business environment, inflation, supply chains, the changing nature of competition as new firms enter the sector, as well as ways the industrial base can better help the Pentagon solve its big problems; Duane Hawkins, the president of the defense and space business at Spirit Aerosystems, discusses his strategy to grow the aerostructures giant’s defense and space business to diversify from its historic reliance on commercial aviation work with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Patrick Cronin, the Asia-Pacific Security chair at the Hudson Institute, discusses erroneous social media speculation over the weekend that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was deposed in a coup and what can be learned from the episode; Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and the Center for a New American Security with an update on Russia’s war on Ukraine and whether Vladimir Putin’s manpower mobilization, annexation of Donbas and Luhansk and nuclear threats will change the conflict as well as countering Iranian drones now in Russian service; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners with takeaways from last week’s Air Force Association conference, CSIS’ industrial base event, Wharton’s Palo Alto gathering, how the Russo-Ukrainian war may change defense demand and the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.