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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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Amb. (Ret.) Doug Lute, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as US ambassador to NATO, and Amb. (Ret.) Nick Burns, one of America’s top former diplomats who also served as US ambassador to NATO — both now affiliated with Harvard University — discuss their new report “NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis” and the vital importance of the Atlantic Alliance and America’s role in it with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Center for a New American Security where the report by Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs was publicly released.

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Air Force Magazine Senior Editor Rachel Cohen and Editorial Director John Tirpak discuss the March 8, 2019, resignation of Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, PhD, who will step down from office in May to become the new president of the University of Texas at El Paso and the revelation by Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., that she was raped when she served on active duty in the Air Force with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s headquarters in Northern Virginia.

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Tom Karako, the missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the Trump administration’s decision to exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia and future systems with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The conversation also included a recap of a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion on what’s next now that the administration has completed its Missile Defense Review, hosted by Karako at the think tank, that included Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy David Trachtenberg and Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, USAF, the director of the Missile Defense Agency.

Reagan National Defense Forum 2018
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Jamie Morin, PhD, a Pentagon’s former director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation who is now vice president for defense systems operations at the Aerospace Corporation, discusses military space operations, protecting US spacecraft and the Space Force with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

Reagan National Defense Forum 2018
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Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the current ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee who will become chairman in January, discusses defense spending outlook, nuclear modernization, Afghanistan strategy and more with Defense & Aerospace Editor Vago Muradian during the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS

AWS 2017
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Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, discusses US Air Force priorities, strategies to counter ISIS, and President Trump’s top national security team with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 33rd annual Air Warfare Symposium March 1-3, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of the symposium was sponsored by DRS Technologies.