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RNDF 2019
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Rep. Mike Gallagher, PhD, R-Wisc., member of House Armed Services Committee, discusses Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s guidance to the force, making tough defense tradeoffs, outlook for spending and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by Boeing and Leonardo DRS.

@CavasShips
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The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the most expensive ship ever built by the US government, and quite possibly by any government. No one knows the true price given the various computational ways to figure the costs of design and development of the ship and its various systems, building the carrier and buying thousands of installed systems and components, and getting all those systems to work as intended. The final bill isn’t in, but all things considered, it is safe to say it will be somewhere north of $15 billion.

AUSA 2019
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David Albritton, the president of GM Defense, discusses the auto giant’s defense capabilities from vehicle propulsion and power to cyber security, its growth strategy, technology investment and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the company’s office in Washington, DC. Our coverage of the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 annual meeting and tradeshow is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.

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Jason Pusey, a mechanical engineer for autonomous systems at the US Army Research Lab, discusses how artificial intelligence is improving autonomous systems like the Robotic Manipulation Platform or RoMan with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at DoD’s 2019 Lab Day at the Pentagon.

GFS 2019
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Ryan McCarthy, the under secretary of the US Army, and Gen. Mike Murray, US Army, the commander of the service’s new Futures Command, discuss the service’s 2020 budget request with reporters at the Association of the United States Army’s Global Force 2019 symposium and exhibition in Huntsville, Ala. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

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Michael Bayer, the chairman of the Defense Business Board who chaired US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s “Cybersecurity Readiness Review,” discusses cyber threats, challenges and recommendations to improve security with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The three other participants in the review were J.H. Whitney Investment Management Chairman John O’Connor, Oceanus Security Strategies President Ronald Moultrie and former Raytheon Chairman and CEO William Swanson.

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Johan Lagerlöf, the deputy director general and head of strategy and security policy at Sweden’s Defense Ministry, and Maj. Gen. Michael Claesson, Swedish Army, the Swedish Armed Forces’ head of plans and policy who also serves as chairman of the Nordic Defense Cooperation Military Coordination Committee, discuss NORDEFCO’s closer cooperation among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the organization’s 2025 plan, Russia, China, cyber and disinformation threats, climate change and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking NORDEFCO’s 10th anniversary and what’s next.

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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.

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