Fred Bruner, manager of P-8A Poseidon production programs and foreign military sales at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the US Navy’s new antisubmarine patrol aircraft program, including how a Boeing 737-800ERX jet becomes a military plane.
Capt. Jason Hamilton, USCG, commanding officer of USCGC Healy — America’s only medium-weight icebreaker — discusses a unique national capability that deploys on four-month national security and science missions to the world’s most unforgiving seas with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was aboard Healy at her homeport in Seattle in early December.
Jason Summers, CEO and chief scientist of Applied Research in Acoustics (ARiA), discusses a new artificial intelligence tool — the Machine Interface for Contracting Assistance (MICA) — that can answer questions about US Air Force contracting rules and regulations, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview took place during the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s Chiefs of Transformation Conference 2016 in Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 13-15, 2016.
Maj Andrew “Punk” Stolee, Air Force Strategic Policy Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies who was the chief F-22 Instructor Pilot at the 433rd Weapons Squadron at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nevada, discusses the differences between operating 4th and 5th generation combat aircraft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Dan McMahon, director of defense and international at Blue Canopy, and Stan Dushko, chief product officer at Centrifuge Systems, discuss their partnership on big data analytics and visualization toolsets for defense, intel and law enforcement applications with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s 2016 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 13-15, 2016.
Abheek Sambyal, director of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Sentrana, discusses how the company can apply artificial intelligence to solve complex problems without having to hire data scientists, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s 2016 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 13-15, 2016.
Lt. Gen. Steven Shepro, USAF, the deputy chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, discusses transformation, capabilities and future warfare trends with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s 2016 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 13-15, 2016.
Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, discusses the global outlook for commercial jet orders, new aircraft and competition with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at BCA’s headquarters near Seattle on Dec. 6, 2016.
Steve Grundman, a former DoD industrial affairs chief who currently serves as the M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, discusses the impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s tweets on the defense industry, the potential contrast between Wall Street expectations and defense-budget realities under the new administration during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report editor Vago Muradian.
Lt. Gen. Jeff Lofgren, USAF, the chief of staff for capabilities development at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, discusses how to address immediate needs while building to goals for the year 2030, wargaming and minimizing a transatlantic capability gap between America and its allies during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s 2016 Chiefs of Transformation conference in Norfolk, Virginia, between Dec. 13-15, 2016.