On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Bruce Jette, PhD, the assistant secretary of the US Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, on accelerating acquisition cycles, the service’s engineering role, harnessing innovation, competition and cutting logistics burdens.
Matt Donovan, the acting US Air Force secretary, discusses the outlook for the department’s budget, future spending, making hard tradeoffs to ensure a more capable force in an era of great power competition with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Space Cyber conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Uzi Rubin, PhD, one of the father’s of Israel’s Arrow missile defense system now with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, discusses Iran’s missile threat to countries in the region, containing Tehran and hypersonic weapons with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted after Rubin addressed the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ Nuclear Deterrent Breakfast Series in Washington on July 9, 2019.
Manuel Navarrete, the Director of the European Counter Terrorism Centre, discusses his organization’s upcoming report on European terrorism, the challenges of tracking returning ISIS fighters, countering terrorism over the long term, and more effectively communicating to dissuade European citizens from either joining terror groups or participating in terror operations with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted after Navarrete spoke at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.
Chris Dougherty, one of the authors of the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy who is now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the think tank’s New American Way of War project with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Maj. Gen. Chris McPadden, the US Army’s strategy chief discusses plans for readiness, modernization, reform…