John Cofrancesco of Fortress Information Security discusses the magnitude of the vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Log4j that can be exploited to take control of servers across cyberspace; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners on the F-35 Lightning II win in Finland, Chinese violations of Taiwanese airspace and the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dave Alexander, the…

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, French Navy Vice Adm. Hervé Bléjean, the Director General of the European Union Military Staff, discusses the EU’s Strategic Compass, threats and needed capabilities, partnership with the United States and NATO, unique role of the EU in global security, China and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s commentary at the Reagan National Defense Forum, prospects for and implications of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and the week ahead; and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall discusses funding his force on continuing resolutions, creating a service culture of moving faster, developing capabilities to deter adversaries like China, and safeguarding US high-value assets like military satellites from interference by Russia and China 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 who was a member of the Reagan Institute’s bipartisan task force on national security and US manufacturing competitiveness co-chaired by former Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marilyn Hewson and Bridgewater Associates CEO David McCormick, discusses the Institute’s new report — “A Manufacturing Renaissance: Bolstering US Production for National Security and Economic Prosperity;” and Dr. Wes Naylor, a retired US Navy captain who is now the president of Fifty Pound Brains Ventures and a professor at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training, discusses key themes at this year’s Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference that began today in Orlando, Fla., with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest Byron…

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Michael Herson of…

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,  Adm. Karl Schultz, USCG, the 26th commandant of the US Coast Guard, discusses how the force is improving its great power capabilities, China’s behavior in the Indo-Pacific, the key role his force can play regionally and worldwide, modernization priorities including offshore patrol vessels, the inland fleet as well as heavy and medium icebreakers, and the impact of climate change with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2021 Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners on the week ahead; Peter Van Praagh, founding President of the Halifax International Forum, on key takeaways from this year’s gathering in Halifax, what to expect from HFX’s forum next year in Taipei, and why it’s important to meet in Taiwan; and Dr. Michael Auslin of the Hoover Institution, Heather Hurlburt of New America, and former Pentagon comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies analyze the Halifax Forum with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest Dr. Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the future of the US Navy’s Aegis ballistic missile defense system at sea and ashore, how the iconic weapon system continues to be evolved to address emerging threats including from hypersonic weapons, an architectural approach to defeating hypersonic weapons that includes kinetic as well as electromagnetic and directed energy, the layered approach to developing US hypersonic capabilities and the what the Biden administration should bear in mind as it conducts its missile defense review with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This podcast marks the start of a regular series on air and missile defense as well as long-range strike.