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.
On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Raanan Horowitz, the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America to provide an update on how his company is working with the U.S. government and their suppliers to minimize risk and long-term problems from COVID-19 crisis.
Patrick Cronin, PhD, the chair for Asia-Pacific Security at the Hudson Institute, discusses the think tank’s new paper — “Strategies for the Indo-Pacific: Perceptions of the U.S. and Like-Minded Countries” — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, PhD, R-Wisc., member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee, discusses the Trump administration’s 2021 Navy budget request, the gap between 355-ship rhetoric and reality, cutting frigates and retiring first four Littoral Combat Ships, and USN-USMC integration and the need to move quickly to rebuild the fleet with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition congressional breakfast on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2020.
Rep. Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., a member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, discusses the Trump Administration’s 2021 Navy budget request and balancing defense investment and social spending with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Amphibious Warship Industrial Coalition’s annual congressional breakfast on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2020.
Eric Stewart, the president of the US-Poland Business Council, discusses the key strategic and industrial relationship between Washington and Warsaw with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Seth Moulton, D-Mass., the co-chairs of the US Congress’ Future of Defense Task Force, discuss their six-moth effort to craft a long-term US defense strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our coverage was sponsored by Boeing and Leonardo DRS.
Thomas Mahnken, PhD, the president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discusses game changing ideas to maintain America’s military advantage in an era of great power competition with China and Russia 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.
Rafal Rohozinski, the CEO of The SecDev Group, discusses Russian and Chinese cyber capabilities and operations, better defenses and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.