On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Kori Schake, PhD, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Cmdr. Guy “Bus” Snodgrass, USN (retired), a former Navy fighter pilot, TOPGUN Instructor and author of the new book TOPGUN’S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit discuss the nomination of retired Army General Lloyd Austin to be Secretary of Defense, the justification to receive a Congressional waiver and the effects his tenure would have on the Defense Department.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Michael Bayer, the former chairman of the Defense Business Board and president of the Dumbarton Strategies consultancy, and Arnold Punaro, former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association and Punaro Group consultancy, discuss President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to tape Gen. Lloyd Austin, USA Ret., as the nation’s 28th defense secretary, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses what to watch and take note of over the coming week in DC and across the national and international security landscape.