Watch the Defense & Aerospace Report’s exclusive video of the complete Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition’s 2018 Congressional Forum, which was held Feb. 15, 2018 in Washington, and included speeches from Gen. Robert Neller, USMC, the 37th US Marine Corps Commandant, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee chairman, and many more.
Lt. Gen. Robert “Whaler” Walsh, USMC, commander of the US Marine Corps Combat Development Command, discusses how he’s teaching Marines about and preparing them for the kind of great-power competition emphasized by the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, distributed operations, with the US Navy, warfighting research and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/US Naval Institute WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., chairman of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, says the funding floor for US Navy shipbuilding must be consistent with “this year’s National Defense Authorization Act and the appropriation, which is $26.2 billion and 13 ships” that is $5.2 billion and three vessels more than the Trump administration’s 2019 budget request, that “serial production and predictability” are key to cutting ship cost, and more during a Feb.15, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was conducted during the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition’s 2018 Congressional Forum on Capitol Hill.
Capt. Sam Tangredi, PhD, USN Ret., a US Naval War College professor, discusses the importance of deterring China, how the US can use A2AD to gain strategic control in the South China Sea, aircraft carriers’ significance to the US Navy and more during a February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/USNI WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
After his keynote speech stressing cybersecurity’s urgency in the defense industry, Patrick Shanahan, deputy defense secretary, told reporters that the US Department of Defense must have zero tolerance for cyber insecurity and irreponsibility, expressed confidence “that the Pentagon can move as quickly as industry,” discussed keys to driving change in DoD, and more during a Feb. 6, 2018, press gaggle at the AFCEA International/USNI WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
David Wennergren, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting and former member of the senior executive service, discusses leadership lessons learned from Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan’s keynote at AFCEA/USNI’s WEST 2018 conference, incentivizing cultural change in the defense industry, and more during a February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.
Patrick Shanahan, deputy defense secretary, says the US Department of Defense must insist on cyber hygiene as much as security clearances, says the Pentagon will advocate for improving foreign military sales, and discusses other goals for DoD and industry drawn from the National Defense Strategy during a Feb. 6, 2018, keynote address at the AFCEA International/USNI WEST 2018 Conference in San Diego.
Col. James “Hondo” Geurts, USAF Ret., assistant secretary of the US Navy for research, development and acquisition, discusses how digital ship modeling and technology refinement (and, if necessary, replacement) can help speed “megaprojects,” the service’s DDG Flight III contract, small business collaboration and more during a press gaggle following his speech at the AFCEA International/USNI WEST 2018 Conference in San Diego.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, advocates for a “whole-of-government approach” to US security sector assistance that promotes counterinsurgency through stability operations, understands this kind of support comprises more than just defense, and splits the workload between the US Defense Department and US State Department, since achieving security goals through interagency and international cooperation is more cost-efficient and can be more effective than putting boots on the ground, during a Feb. 12, 2018, speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Col. James “Hondo” Geurts, USAF Ret., assistant secretary of the US Navy for research, development and acquisition, discusses how the service sped its MQ-25 Stingray, Standard Missile-6, C4ISR and Long Range Anti-Ship Missile programs, learning from SOFWERX, shipbuilding strategy, priorities and innovation, and the White House’s FY19 defense budget request during a Feb. 8, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/US Naval Institute WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Watch Geurts’ full interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian here, and check out video of the press gaggle that followed his speech here.