Defense Department

Commentary
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The US Air Force, Army, and Navy are currently debating the importance of integrating the US Space Force into the structure of the armed forces.
But the current debate belies a crucial point. For decades, those same services have starved space of required resources and talent. Making up for this deficit, and responding to the new directives of the president and Congress, will consume most of the Space Force’s efforts for years. The service is going to start small and undermanned.

VAGO'S NOTEBOOK
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America has two years to field the capabilities needed to continue deterring an every more emboldened and capable China. Biden’s defense team will have to move fast make long-overdue changes to field new capabilities and operational concepts to maintain the nation’s deterrent edge.

PODCASTS
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On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests in segment one are Michael Bayer, the chairman of the Defense Business Board and the president of the Dumbarton Strategies consultancy, and Arnold Punaro, the chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association and CEO of the Punaro Group consultancy to discuss the ongoing presidential transition and how to best accomplish the monumental task of a peaceful transition of power. 

In segment two, our roundtable guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners and Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute.

Cyber Report
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On this week’s Cyber Report, Donna Dodson, the chief cybersecurity advisor at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, discusses engineering cyber security interoperability across government and industry with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Northrop Grumman sponsors the Cyber Report and our cyber coverage.

Reagan National Defense Forum 2018
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Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril Industries who also founded Oculus Rift VR — which he sold to Facebook — discusses his new company, defense innovation, the Defense Innovation Unit and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

AWS 2017
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Gen. David Goldfein, USAF, chief of staff of the US Air Force, discusses President Trump’s proposed $54 billion defense spending increase, need for a bigger force and retaining pilots, ISIS options, top modernization priority and a case for repealing the budget control act with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s annual air warfare symposium in Orlando, Florida. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of the symposium was sponsored by DRS Technologies.