Brig. Gen. Leonard Kosinski, USAF, the director of logistics at US Africa Command, discusses logistics in support of operations and cooperation across the vast continent with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Hugh Griffiths, the chief executive of Inzpire, discusses the company’s new simulator, changing flight training and QinetiQ’s acquisition of an 85 percent stake in the UK firm and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the DSEI 2019 conference and tradeshow in London. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS and in partnership with Clarion Events — DSEI’s organizer — and working with the UK Department of International Trade’s Defence & Security Organisation to bring our audience the best in British defense and security.
Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, USMC Ret., senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the guidance by Gen. David Berger, USMC, the new US Marine Corps commandant, to better prepare his force for rapidly emerging challenges, focusing on innovative concepts to deliver amphibious capability, importance of more numbers rather than fewer more “exquisite” platforms, the defense budget outlook and the need to make hard choices with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington headquarters after an address by Berger.
Beards are a hot button issue – sailors want them – Navy leadership says they can’t have them.
Now the last bastions of beards in the Navy – “permanent no shave chits” issued for medical reasons, are being be thrown overboard, too.
Instead, the service will expand treatment options for sailors with skin issues caused by shaving.
It’s not that the service hasn’t considered again allowing beards – they have.
The Navy has studied beards many times since 1985, the last time beards were allowed throughout the ranks. Each time, the conclusion is the same — they pose a significant safety hazard in shipboard environments. That’s why facial hair, other than mustaches, will stay banned in the Navy.
After 28-years in the fleet, the guided-missile cruiser Hue City arrived at Naval Station Norfolk today to begin her stint in the Navy’s Cruiser Modernization program after a three-day tow from Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The ship officially became the seventh Ticonderoga-class cruiser to enter the service life extension program on Sept. 30.
Col. Tad “Wolf” Clark, USAF, the commander of the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, discusses lessons the US Air Force can learn from the Wolfpack’s hair-trigger alert posture to deter North Korea, how brutal a conflict between the Koreas would be, cooperation with South Korean forces, and the rich history of his unit and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Diego de Ojeda, head of unit for defense and security policies at the European Commission Secretariat General, discusses talks with US officials to explain the European Defence Initiative, European Defence Fund and other efforts to improve EU nation’s military capabilities and make them more effective NATO partners as well as export control discussion with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington, DC.
Keith Flail, the vice president for advanced vertical lift systems at Bell, and Frank Lazzara, the company’s director for advanced vertical lift systems sales and strategy, discuss the 360 Invictus helicopter the company will propose in the US Army’s competition for a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Bell’s Advnaced Vertical Lift Center in northern Virginia. Flail is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel who flew the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and Lazzara is a reitred US Air Force lieutenant colonel who started his career in the Army flying Kiowas before joining the Air Force to fly the MH-53 Pave Low and MV-22 Osprey aircraft.
Ariel Cohen, PhD, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and senior program and senior fellow a the International Tax and Investment Center think tanks, discusses how the United States and international community can deter Iran’s provocative behavior, the need for military strikes, and the world oil market in the wake of Tehran’s attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington, DC.
Gen. Tim Ray, USAF, the commander of the US Air Force Global Strike Command, discusses forward basing bombers in the Pacific, how many bombers the nation needs and the need for a new low-yield nuclear weapon with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.