On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defence Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute think tank, discusses the third in a series of three reports on mosaic warfare sponsored by DARPA and coauthored with his colleagues Dan Patt and Tim Walton — “Advancing Decision-Centric Warfare: Gaining Advantage Through Force Design and Mission Integration” — how the Biden administration’s Pacific Defense Initiative illustrates the problem of poor integrated planning, how a mosaic warfare approach can help DoD make hard choices, what to prioritize and what to cut, better preparing for how adversaries are going to fight as opposed to hope DoD hopes they will, lessons from the recent episode involving HMS Defender in the Black Sea, and the shipyard capabilities the US Navy needs with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Adm. Bill Moran, USN Ret., the…

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Sam Bendett and Jeff Edmonds of the Center for Naval Analyses Russia program — both also affiliated with the Center for a New American Security — discuss CNA’s new report, “Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in Russia” that was sponsored by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Defense & Aerospace, Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, USAF, the program executive officer of the F-35 Lightning II fighter, discusses why the ambitious multinational stealthy strike jet effort is vital, is delivering game-changing capability today as it prepares for tomorrow’s threats, getting steadily cheaper to buy and operate while blazing the trail for new aircraft, command systems and synthetic training environments in an exclusive interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Raanan Horowitz, the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, discusses lessons from the covid pandemic, how those lessons will shape how his company operates, the defense budget outlook and thoughts for the new administration, growth opportunities and Elbit’s acquisition of Sparton with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,  Andrew Hunter, the director of the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Stacie Pettyjohn, Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) discuss the U.S. Army portion of the Biden Administration’s FY 2022 budget submission. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Todd Harrison, the director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and John Tirpak of Air Force Magazine discuss the U.S. Air Force  and Space Force portion of the Biden Administration’s FY 2022 budget submission. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests Bryan McGrath of The Ferrybridge Group and Defense & Aerospace Report’s own contributing editor Christopher P. Cavas discuss the Department of the Navy’s portion of the FY ’22  Budget proposal. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Heather Conley, the senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Michael Kofman, the director of Russia studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, discuss the recent Arctic Council meeting in Reykjavik as chairmanship of the body shifts to Russia for the coming two years, security challenges in the region as Moscow asserts its sovereignty, key issues for the upcoming June 16 summit meeting between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sino-Russian cooperation in the Arctic and how to punish Belarus for hijacking a Ryanair jet to apprehend democracy activists Roman Protasevich with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.