On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, provides highlights from his recently completed writing in the Strategy Bridge on Net Assessment in DoD and on-going work on electromagnetic spectrum technology competition between the US, China, and Russia.
What we need is an expansion, not a homeward relocation, of reliable health care supply chains, including a focus on the critical elements of the lower tiers of the industrial base. Why spend scarce federal resources on moving home existing facilities businesses in a manner that maintains the supply and demand status quo rather than adding facilities that will expand the overall supply of needed items?
As the USS Theodore Roosevelt saga winds down, the incentive to get back to “business as usual basis” builds. Were that to happen, it would be a colossal error.
The TR incident comes in the wake of too many seeming errors, mistakes and scandals that have befallen the Navy. These demand that crucial questions must now be addressed about the overall condition of the Navy that have led to what some including the president and the secretary of Defense believe is a service that is badly adrift.
Fortunately, the relatively new Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, has not been tainted by any of the scandals or problems and therefore is the right person at the right time to dig more deeply into resolving these symptoms of naval ill-health.
Washington no longer has the luxury of unnecessary duplication of capabilities, programs of incremental value, systems that are vulnerable or cause more logistical headaches than they solve.
The reassessment of America’s legacy platforms, concepts of operations and assumptions must be clinical, empirical and unsentimental.
Anything that poses novel and costly problems for our adversaries, holds their forces at risk, heightens their uncertainty or complicates every element of their planning deserves to be prioritized. Anything that doesn’t should be sacrificed to free resources for what will.
On this week’s Cyber Report, Rear Adm. William Metts, USN Ret., the director for strategy and program integration at Northrop Grumman Cyber and Intelligence Mission Solutions, discusses cyber training and certification across all warfare domains with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Northrop Grumman sponsors the Cyber Report and our cyber coverage.
Alan Pellegrini, the CEO of Thales North America, discusses how the company is meeting the US Defense Department’s new cyber security standards and artificial intelligence market growth with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Reagan National Defense Forum where our coverage was sponsored by Boeing and Leonardo DRS. Northrop Grumman sponsors our weekly Cyber Report and our cyber coverage.
Rear Adm. James Robb, USN Ret., the president of the National Training and Simulation Association — a part of the National Defense Industrial Association — discusses key training and simulation messages for Congress at the organization’s annual expo on Capitol Hill, resolving the national shortage of military and civilian pilots, and new technology for education with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Jan-Olof Lind, the state secretary to Sweden’s defense minister, discusses increasing defense cooperation with the United States, the findings of the recently-release Defence Commission that shapes the country’s strategic planning, Russia and US tensions with China with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at Sweden’s embassy to the United States at the conclusion of the 17th US-Sweden Defense Defense Cooperation Conference.
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.
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., the chairman of the House Seapower and Expeditionary Forces subcommittee, discusses the outlook for defense spending now that Democrats control the House, naval readiness implications if President Trump declares a national emergency to build a border wall with military construction funding, whether more subs will be built with the $4 billion savings from the deal to buy two Ford-class carriers at the same time, the Navy’s shifting statements on 355-ships and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on Capitol Hill. We spoke with Courtney, who represents New England’s largest military installation, the Navy’s submarine base in New London, on the sidelines of the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition.