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DEFAERO REPORT Daily Podcast
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On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Dr. Brian Taylor, a professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as well as the director of Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs — and author of, “The Code of Putinism” — discusses whether the brief and aborted mutiny by Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin will undermine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 23-year grip on power, whether Prigozhin’s scathing criticism and Putin’s clemency of the Wagner boss and his fighters will come back to haunt Putin by potentially empowering other senior figures to mount a future challenge, elites’ faith in the longtime leader, how the episode will shape Putin’s approach to the Ukraine war and whether he will be more inclined to using nuclear weapons, and how the Russian public and Chinese leaders will view Putin after the mutiny with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

DEFAERO REPORT Daily Podcast
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On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the questions in the wake of Wagner Group mercenary and convict force boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted drive toward Moscow, the outlook for Vladimir Putin’s longevity given security services failed to move to stop the mercenary force until Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ended the crisis by offering Prigozhin as well as his troops and their equipment asylum in Belarus, and an update on Ukraine’s counteroffensive; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the defense investment implications of the Prigozhin affair, a look at House and Senate markups of the Biden administration’s defense budget request, takeaways from the Paris Air Show, and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Monday Business Report
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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, worldwide implications of a new four-year labor contract for Spirit AeroSystems’ workers that might yield a pay raise great than the 34 percent deal rejected by members, and analysis of key headlines from the 54th Paris Air Show including commercial aircraft orders, revelation that three demonstrators were built for the US Air Force’s top priority and top secret Next Generation Air Dominance combat aircraft program and that the service selected two teams to compete for the final order, and an update on the Franco-German-Spanish SCAF fighter program that now includes Belgium as an observer, and European air and missile defense efforts.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States has produced a more dependable and powerful partnership not only in the Indo-Pacific region, but in space and defense. Laura Winter digs into the commercial, defense, and geopolitical details with Namrata Goswami, an independent scholar on space policy and great power politics and co-author of the book “Scramble for the Skies”; Ajey Lele, a Consultant at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; U.S. Amb. (ret.) Atul Keshap, President of the United States India Business Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Kranthi Musunuru, Head of Strategy, Dhruva Space.

CAVASShips Weekly Podcast
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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…Not long ago, the future of shipbuilders Austal USA was somewhat in doubt. Yet the company has rapidly expanded into new programs and efforts that are redefining its reputation as just a builder of aluminum ships. We’ll hear from Austal USA’s VP of Business Development Larry Ryder on the progress of those efforts.

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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 DoD Europe chief Jim Townsend now with 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 House and Senate defense authorization and House defense appropriations markups, update on Ukraine supplemental that can become a vehicle for Pentagon budget plus up, allies pledge to rebuild Ukraine and whether more than $300 billion in Russian assets should be sent to Kyiv, update on Ukraine’s offensive, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States and the messages the visit sends to China and the world, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Xi Jinping to de-escalate tensions between the two nations, what Washington should do next now that Chinese shipments of gunpowder to Russia have been confirmed, how White House efforts to toward an “understanding” with Tehran could jeopardize the Abraham Accords, and the implications of recent of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

DEFAERO REPORT Daily Podcast
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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.

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The U.S. Space Force asked the Rand Corporation to come up with a new officer workforce framework, “conceived independently of the existing [U.S. Air Force] structure.” This novel proposal, which aims to balance space mission requirements and the careers of officers, has been delivered. Laura Winter speaks with two of the Rand Corporation authors, Larry Hanser, a senior behavioral scientist, and Jennifer Li, a senior management Scientist; and Chris Stone, Senior Fellow for Space Deterrence-National Institute for Deterrence Studies; and Brent Ziarnick, an associate professor of space power at the Air Command and Staff College.

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