On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Leigh Madden, the CEO of Epirus, an innovative power management company founded in 2018 — named for the magical bow with infinite arrows wielded by the Greek hero Theseus — to develop high-power microwave systems to counter drones and cruise missiles, discusses the firm’s innovative approach, the growing threat, lessons from the Russia’s war on Ukraine, growing a small business in the Pentagon’s defense innovation ecosystem, competing against established primes and the difference between leading a new small firm and the national security arm of industry titan Microsoft 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 takeaways from this year’s Primer 2.2,  Russia’s war on Ukraine and a look at the week ahead and Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses Russia’s Army 2022 conference and tradeshow as well as the latest from the Russo-Ukraine conflict. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Jerry Hendrix, PhD, President of Hendrix and Associates LLC and Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute on his recent National Review article “The Navy’s Littoral Hubris,” how the service bet its future on a mistaken assumption. During our conversation we discussed the troubled Littoral Combat Ship program, Navy force structure and why culture may be the root cause of many of the Navy’s recent operational and programatic stumbles.