On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr Franco Gussalli Beretta, the president and CEO of Fabrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta — the heart of the family-owned company that is the world’s oldest arms maker, dating to 1526 with a contract for 185 arquebus barrels for the Doge of Venice — discusses the firm’s heritage, technology investment priorities, strategic decision process and partnership with General Dynamics to win the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon contract with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in an AUSA Now exclusive. Beretta USA sponsors our land warfare coverage and is also sponsoring our coverage of the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting, AUSA Now, as are Bell and Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Bill Lynn, former deputy US defense secretary who is now president and CEO of Leonardo DRS, discusses operating in the time of COVID, company priorities, the current budget environment and great power competition.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Amb. Eric Edelman, a former US ambassador to Turkey who is now a counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Amb. John Evans, a former US ambassador to Armenia, and Eugene Rumer, the director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discuss the combined Turkish-Azerbaijani assault on the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Maj. Gen. Bill Cooley, USAF, the special assistant to the commander of the US Air Force Materiel Command, discusses service and industry efforts to go digital–better utilizing data to make decisions and assess current processes. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest Byron…