On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Greg Ulmer, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program, says he expects a Lot 11 agreement with the US government within about 30 days, and discusses the company’s June 6 delivery of the first four F-35 Lightning II fighters to the UK, program updates, modernization, sustainment, software stability, the Autonomic Logistics Information System (or ALIS), aircraft availability, and turnaround rates, projected unit pricing, potential new markets for the jet — including Finland and Canada — and much more during a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies, Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, RAF Ret., former director-general of NATO’s International Military Staff and current vice president of Charitable Trust Enterprises, says NATO’s invocation of the Article 5 commitment shouldn’t depend on a threatened nation’s defense-spending level and discusses how Baltic air defenses can be improved on both a local and alliance level to deter Russia, what went right and wrong at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, and much more in a wide-ranging, July 14, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our RIAT coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Welcome to the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews Podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies. On this episode, Lt. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, USMC, the US Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations, discusses his vision for a “whole-of-nation approach” to preparing for great-power competition, amphibious assault ships’ role in future combat and the dynamic force employment concept during a June 4, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The interview was taped after a panel discussion on Marine Air-Ground Task Forces innovation.

On this extended edition of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we look ahead to the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels and President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discuss recent high-level resignations from UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet (including that of Foreign Minister Boris Johnson), preview the 2018 Farnborough Air Show and more. This week’s guests include Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the Atlantic Council, Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Teri Schultz, a freelance journalist who covers the European Union and NATO for Deutsche Welle and National Public Radio, and Francis Tusa, editor of the Defence Analysis newsletter.

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels, the Trump-Putin meeting later in July, the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee’s defense-spending bill, Australia’s selection of BAE’s Type 26 frigate for its SEA 5000 future frigate program and much more. Our guests include Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the Atlantic Council, Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council, and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

Welcome to the Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews Podcast, sponsored by L3 Technologies. On this episode, Bob Work, former deputy defense secretary who is now defense counselor at the Center for a New American Security, discusses China’s three-pronged strategy to offset US military advantages that includes espionage to shrink the time needed to develop new systems, employing a “system-destruction” approach to warfare, and attacking first to overwhelm defenses, Beijing’s capabilities and ways Washington can respond during a wide-ranging, June 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of CNAS’ annual conference, this year titled, “Strategic Competition: Maintaining the Edge.”

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the state of global defense and aerospace markets in the midst of potential trade war, Australia’s SEA 5000 future frigate program, and much more. Our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council think tank, former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale, PhD (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his thoughts are his own), and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

On this special episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report, sponsored by Bell, we come to you from the Center for a New American Security’s June 22 “Strategic Competition: Maintaining the Edge” conference. Here’s a podcasted version of the event’s first panel — a conversation between Senate Armed Services Committee members Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and moderated by CNAS President Richard Fontaine, on how the US can stay ahead in an era of great-power competition, the future of US involvement in Afghanistan, improving military recruitment and more.

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the US Senate’s passage of a defense bill that’d bring back the US ban on Chinese company ZTE’s purchase of American parts, takeaways from last week’s 2018 Eurosatory land warfare trade show in Paris, the week in defense and aerospace markets, and more. This week’s guests include Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council think tank and Grundman Advisory, and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

On this special episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the consent decree regarding the recently approved merger of Northrop Grumman and Orbital ATK. Our guests include Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council think tank.