On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the latest defense and aerospace headlines and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
This week’s episode serves up an in-depth interview with Maj. Gen. (ret.) Kimberly Crider, who was the first Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the United States Space Force and is now a founding partner of a new space business, Elara Nova. Laura Winter also speaks with Jim Townsend, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, and President of the Atlantic Treaty Association, who was in Vilnius, Lithuania this week for the 2023 NATO Summit.
On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets
Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…The web site Naval News is one of the world’s premier sources for naval information around the world. Founder and editor Xavier Vavasseur is with us to talk about some of the latest trends he’s seen and reported on so far in a very busy 2023.
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On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the weeks top US and international security headlines.
Airpower is everywhere in this week’s Air Power podcast, powered by GE Aerospace. Vago reports from the Air Chiefs’ Conference and Royal International Air Tattoo in England, including a discussion with former Air Marshal Greg Bagwell about the major issues. And he also speaks with brigadier general Marc LaBouil of the French air and space forces, who is leading a remarkable French deployment to Asia. Of course, there are the weeks headlines in airpower. And we apologize for some audio variability; we were both on the road this week, so it may not sound quite as smooth as usual – but the information is there and it’s good!
On today’s Technology Report, Kynan Carver of government services firm Maximus discusses how to get to a zero trust world, cloud security and improving government and military security at the point of logging in; and Dale Davis of Ultratech Capital Partners discusses the Pentagon’s progress on better harnessing commercial technology for military gain and steps to improve its game, dialogue with DoD on the problems that need solving, and the outlook for capital availability as investors tightened their standards after years of lax practices with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, one of America’s foremost strategists who is now affiliated with the Center for a New American Security and the Hudson Institute, discusses his new book — The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers — that dissects lessons from four critical inflection points in the development of breakthrough military capabilities shaped by singular leaders who harnessed technological change to craft forces able to prevail over adversaries to shape the future of their nations, China’s long head start on building forces able to systemically undermine US military advantages, what the United States has to do to regain the upper hand in the competition, vital role of leadership and tenure in driving change, and Ukraine war lessons with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the three-hour meeting Vladimir Putin held with Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders as well as top officials five days after the aborted mutiny spearheaded by the mercenary leader, status report on the Ukraine War and US decision to supply Kyiv with the cluster munitions it sought, and update on unmanned systems on the battlefield; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the defense industrial implications of NATO’s Vilnius Summit, the need for an alliance munitions strategy to leverage broad industrial capabilities to accelerate production, putting the clusters munitions debate in the right context given Ukraine called for the weapons as Russia has used them indiscriminately against civilians, and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
It is time to take a look back at the first six months to see how the space market, space capital, and the space economy have fared. This episode also ferrets out the top space finance events from Q1 and Q2 that are shaping spending, investment, and business strategies for the next two quarters and beyond. Laura Winter speaks with Chris Quilty, founder of Quilty Space; and George Pullen, Chief Economist at Milky Way Economy.