On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute on the stand-up of The Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson, the intersection of defense operations and new technologies, the upcoming release of the center’s antisubmarine warfare study and the fallout from the recent fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard.
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.
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.
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.
To avoid another fiscal crisis, we need a bipartisan deal to raise Budget Control Act (BCA) discretionary caps and the nation’s debt ceiling. While budget deals are best done behind closed doors, the lack of any apparent progress on this front is troubling.
Bill Lynn, former US deputy defense secretary who is now the president and CEO of Leonardo DRS, talks about the company’s 2018 earnings, market outlook, programs and company’s 50th anniversary with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow outside Washington where our coverage is sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
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.
Gen. Hawk Carlisle, USAF Ret., the president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association, discusses making the case for bigger defense budgets during an interview 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 is sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
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
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