Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Feb 26, 21]
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our…
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Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Feb 25, ’21] Competition Commodities
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Bill Greenwalt of the American Enterprise Institute discusses the new report he co-authored with the Hudson Institute’s Dan Patt, “Competing in Time: Ensuring Capability Advantage and Mission Success through Adaptable Resource Allocation” on how to accelerate the acquisition process, and Jim Litinsky, the founder, chairman and CEO of MP Materials, the sole US rare earths maker, discusses President Biden’s executive order to safeguard critical US capabilities and building an American permanent magnet ecosystem.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Feb 23, ’21] Modernizing Test & Evaluation; Latest on Iranian Nuclear Deal
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, George Rumford, the principal deputy director of DoD’s Test Resource Management Center, discusses modernizing the nation’s test and evaluation enterprise vital to a new generation of weaponry, and Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council discusses Iran’s move to block nuclear inspectors from visiting undeclared sites with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Feb 22, ’21] Look Ahead w/ Byron Callan & Dave Deptula
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest in segment one is Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses what to watch and take note of over the coming week in DC and across the national and international security landscape. In segment two we talk to Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula, USAF Ret., the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies about recent remarks from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown on the need for new “5th generation minus” fighter, as well as a preview of the upcoming Air Force Association virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Feb 21, 21 Business Report]
On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we look ahead to 2021 with “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group consultancy and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.
DEFAERO Strategy Series w/ Tom Ricks [Feb 20, ’21]
Welcome to the DEFAERO Andy Marshall Strategy Series, our discussion with leading thinkers on security, business and technology. Our guest is Thomas E. Ricks, author, journalist, editor and adviser on national security. Ricks covered the US military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize–winning teams, he covered US military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Feb 19, ’21]
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr Gordon Adams, the senior White House budget official for national security during the Clinton administration who is now a distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute and the Stimson Center as well as an American University professor emeritus, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners, Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based freelance reporter for National Public Radio
Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Feb 18, ’21] Trading and Planning to Compete
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Brett Lambert, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for manufacturing and industrial base policy who is now with the Densmore consultancy, discusses how the Biden administration should address trade with China as Beijing weighs blocking rare earths exports to the United States, and Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute discusses why the Pentagon has to rethink its war planning scenarios and adopt more flexible budgeting with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
DEFAERO Strategy Series w/ Michael O’Hanlon [Jan 16, ’21]
Welcome to the DEFAERO Andy Marshall Strategy Series, our discussion with leading thinkers on security, business and technology. Our guest is Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow, and director of research, in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He co-directs the Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology; the Defense Industrial Base working group; and the Africa Security Initiative within the Foreign Policy program, as well. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint, due out in May ’21.
This conversation is part of a series on strategists and strategy devoted to the memory of one of the nation’s greatest national security strategists, Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s office of net assessment and sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.
Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Jan 15, ’21]
On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests in segment one are Michael Bayer, former 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, and Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute.