Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Friday Roundtable Jul 19, 2019]

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Eugene Rumer, a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council, is a senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, and Todd Jaeger, PhD, Global Sales Director, Commercial Optics, Heraeus Quartz Glass.

Topics:
— US budget deliberations including raising America’s borrowing limit
— Impact of talks on Pentagon pending
— Russia’s strategy and how Washington and it’s allies should respond
— And on Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary, the only part of the mission that’s still working, the Lunar Laser Retro-Reflector experiment by Heraeus that Buzz Aldrin set up on the Moon on July 20, 1969