On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, guests Lt. Gen. Wallace “Chip” Gregson, USMC Ret., a former assistant secretary of defense for defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs who is now the senior director for China and the Pacific at the Center for the National Interest, and Misha Auslin, PhD, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, discuss US-China relations, responding to Beijing’s crackdown in Hong Kong crackdown, and how to deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, guest Alan R. Shaffer, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Acquisition & Sustainment discusses COVID-19 response, defense procurement of supplies for agencies across government, use of the Defense Production Act, acquisition lessons learned and work that still needs to be done. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, guests Bryan McGrath of The Ferrybridge Group and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member) discuss Bryan’s recent article “Seapower Advocacy: Time to Get Serious”. Our naval coverage is sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council on the ramifications of growing partnerships between Iran and China.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, USN (ret.), executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and Eric Sayers of Beacon Global Strategies discuss their recent paper “Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS.” The paper is part of the Center for a New American Security “The Next Defense Strategy” series.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests, from WestExec Advisors, Michèle Flournoy and Gabrielle Chefitz, co-authors of the CNAS report: “Sharpening the U.S. Military’s Edge: Critical Steps for the Next Administration” discusses key points from the report and offer their advice to future national security leaders on the urgent agenda needed moving forward.