On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Tony Long, the innovation manager at Northrop Grumman, discusses how the company’s Fab Labs — pioneered at a warehouse in the corner of the historic Space Park campus in Redondo Beach, Calif. — are changing the aerospace and defense giant’s culture by fostering greater collaboration and innovation as well as accelerating engineering and development with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.  

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses key takeaways from a panel discussion with Washington’s top defense budget analysts convened on Monday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Gen. Hawk Carlisle, USAF Ret., the president and CEO of National Defense Industrial Association, discusses the organizations third annual Vital Signs report on the health of the US national security industrial base and the bipartisan commission to update the Pentagon’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution system with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier, the chief of staff of the French Navy, discusses global naval trends that are shaping his planning, training and investment decisions, France’s strategic role in the Indo-Pacific, increasing Franco-American naval cooperation and interoperability, tougher and more realistic at-sea training for a new generation of naval leaders, modernization priorities, capabilities for France’s next 80,000-ton nuclear powers aircraft carrier, and case for integrated sea-space-cyber power in future conflict with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the long-range strike as well as integrated air and missile defenses that Russia would bring to bear against Ukraine in the event of an invariant, how Saudi Arabia and UAE are defending against Houthi, North Koreas missile programs, and the US Army’s progress on hypersonic weapons; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses recent defense and aerospace industry earnings, whether Russia-Ukraine tensions will drive higher European military spending and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.