Ron Hutter, executive director of GE Aviation’s T901 turboshaft engine program, discusses program updates, technology investment, the company’s T700 engine, US Army modernization and more during an April 2018 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville, Tennessee. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Chris Frillman, director of programs for weapons systems at Arnold Defense, discusses the company’s LWL-12 lightweight rocket launcher, the future of weapons development and more in an interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville, Tennessee. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Keith Flail, vice president for advanced tiltrotor systems at Bell, a Textron Company, discusses the company’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft and V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor unmanned aerial system, why he believes the US Army should prioritize Capability Set 3 over Capability Set 1 in its Future Vertical Lift efforts and speeding Army acquisition during an April 25, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville, Tennessee. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Bell sponsors our Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast.
Randy Rotte, director of business development for cargo helicopter and Future Vertical Lift programs at Boeing, and Richard Koucheravy, director of business development and strategy for Future Vertical Lift at SIkorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, discuss the SB-1 Defiant JMR Technology Demonstrator they’re jointly developing in support of the US Army’s Future Vertical Lift requirements and the benefits of collaboration during an April 26, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Scott Thompson, partner and US Defense & Aerospace Leader at the PwC consultancy, discusses merger and acquisition trends, the impact of sequestration and fiscal uncertainty on US defense market activity and more during an April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.
Capt. Fred McLaren, PhD, USN Ret., author of “Silent and Unseen” and the former president of the American Polar Society, discusses the early years of the US Nuclear Submarine Force, his book “Unknown Waters,” the resurgence of great-power competition and much more in a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 AFCEA/USNI WEST conference and trade show in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Brig. Gen. John Evans, USA, commanding general of US Army Special Operations Aviation Command — also known as ARSOAC — says that last month’s US-UK-France joint strikes in Syria haven’t impacted his command’s strategy or readiness posture during a press conference at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2018 conference and trade show in Nashville, Tennessee. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Air Vice-Marshal Kim Osley, Royal Australian Air Force, military advisor at Team Defence Australia, discusses the US-Australia military relationship that dates back to the Battle of Hamel during World War I, his team’s goals at the 2018 Sea-Air-Space Symposium, the country’s new defense-industry strategy that was outlined in a recent white paper and more during a wide-ranging April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at this year’s symposium. Our coverage was sponsored by Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls industries and Leonardo DRS.
Carl “Glen” Henshaw, a roboticist at the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology and principal investigator with the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative — or MeRLIn — discusses the program’s efforts to produce quadriped robots that can scout enclosed spaces and travel across rough terrain to scout before troops are sent in, future capabilities, design, stability and power-management challenges, and much more during a wide-ranging, April 24, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, conducted at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.
Gary Gysin, president and CEO of Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company, discusses its efforts to integrate its own technologies with others from elsewhere within the Boeing ecosystem and the US Navy to create a transparent oceans architecture, the advantages of the Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle’s new copper-composite coating, how we should think about other countries’ artificial intelligence and autonomous-system capabilities, how Silicon Valley can become technologically superior to China and more during an April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Sea-Air-Space Symposium near Washington. Our coverage was sponsored by the Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.