On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula, USAF Ret., the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, USMC Ret., senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discuss the commentary on readiness and modernization by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown that ran in the Washington Post on Feb. 1 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,Rear Adm. Paul Schlise, USN, the US Navy’s surface warfare director, and Maj. Gen. Tracy King, USMC, the service’s director of expeditionary warfare, discuss how the Navy will regain program management credibility as it embarks on a series of new warship programs, the need for reliability and maintainability in future platforms, distributed Marine operations and the need for the Light Amphibious Warship, mine countermeasures and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage of the Surface Navy Association’s virtual annual meeting was sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine, GE Marine and Leonardo DRS. We are an SNA media partner.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Thomas Mahnken, the president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and Roger Zakheim, the director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, discuss their collaborative report — “America’s Strategic Choices: Defense Spending in a Post-COVID-19 World” — warning of the consequences of cutting Pentagon spending with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Rick Nagel, the CEO and managing partner of Acorn Growth Companies, and former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine discuss the space agency chief’s new role as the private equity firm’s senior advisor, the outlook for defense, aerospace and intelligence markets, his legacy, the incoming Biden administration, accelerating the fielding of new capabilities and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.