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.