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 as defense spending uncertainty returns to Washington, industry wide implications of Spirit AeroSystems’ new contract with unionized workers that if approved would raise pay by 34 percent, news reports that Ball Corp. is considering selling its aerospace unit for more than $5 billion, a progress report on the UK-Italy-Japan Global Combat Aircraft Program and some of the characteristics of the new fighter, key storylines from the 54th Paris Air Show including whether commercial aircraft orders will set a new record and the Franco-German-Spanish SCAF fighter program, plus a Ukraine war update.

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 GOP floor antics as politically unpalatable new budget levels are set, House Armed Services and Defense Appropriations markups, Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., continued hold on 250 military promotions, the global implications of former President Trump’s federal indictment for taking top secret documents including nuclear and war plans then misleading investigators, Ukraine’s counteroffensive and whether Washington and the West’s incremental approach to arming Kyiv is leaving the country without what it needs to mount a successful offensive, Russia’s claim it deployed nuclear weapons to Belarus, Germany’s new national security strategy, France scuppers NATO’s plan to open a liaison office in Tokyo to better coordinate alliance activities with Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, White House messaging on China’s spy base in Cuba, whether Turkey will allow Sweden to join the alliance, update on Israel’s chaotic political scene and White House outreach to Iran.

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 as investors weigh commercial real estate worries and prospects that Congress might not plus up Pentagon spending, the International Air Transport Association’s new traffic numbers and outlook on sustainable aviation, the concern that airlines are ordering too many airplanes in large blocks, Airbus delivery figures, defense sentiment as Ukraine launches its counteroffensive, and themes for the upcoming Paris Air Show that convenes the week after next at the historic airfield at Le Bourget outside the French capital.

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, former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss prospects for supplemental funding from Congress for Ukraine and cover Pentagon needs in the wake of the bipartisan debt deal, the Freedom Caucus revolt that’s blocked the House floor to protest Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Republican presidential field and political implications of former President Trump’s impending federal indictment for mishandling top secret documents, what’s next in the Ukraine war as Kyiv launches its offensive and Russia blows up the Novo Kakhovka dam, growing US comfort with Ukraine using American weapons against Russia, France’s move to block a NATO liaison office in Tokyo, prospect that China will open a spy base in Cuba and what Washington can do about it, roundup of headlines in Asia and the Middle East, including the big Saudi win in negotiating a merger between the PGA and LIV to dominate golf as it already does Formula 1 and soccer.