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Defense & Aerospace Report

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Welcome to the Defense and Aerospace Report podcast, our weekly podcast on the global defense and aerospace business sponsored by Bell, and hosted by Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Each week, we’ll bring you interviews with industry leaders and the business’ best analysts to put events in context, identify trends and keep an eye on what’s next in a fast-moving world. Defense & Aerospace Report is your global source for national security and aerospace news, thought leadership and analysis, founded and edited by Vago Muradian.

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Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 16, 23] Convo w/ Djiboutian Ambassador Mohamed Siad Doualeh

August 16, 2023 15:38 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MB

On today’s program, Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Djibouti’s ambassador to the United States as well as representative to the United Nations, discusses the importance of engaging with African nations to foster stability and security, the reluctance for nations to choose sides in an era of increasingly heated great-power competition, addressing turmoil in Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen, the role of the Economic Community of West African States in confronting the junta that deposed Niger’s legitimately el...

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 15, 23] Convo w/ McKinsey's Varun Marya

August 15, 2023 16:35 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MB

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Varun Marya, the aerospace and defense lead for the Americas at the McKinsey consultancy, discusses the global business environment, business strategy, the need to pick winners and losers, accelerating DoD adoption of commercial technologies for military applications, how targeted Pentagon spending can attract commercial capital to solve defense problems, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Daily Podcast [Aug 14, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

August 14, 2023 13:52 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the latest defense and aerospace headlines and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Aug 13, ’23 Business Report]

August 13, 2023 20:31 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as inflation ticks up and investors debate when the Federal Reserve will start cutting short-term borrowing rates intended to fight inflatio...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable Aug 11, ’23]

August 11, 2023 18:05 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss looming government shutdown and Ukraine supplemental, moves to impeach President Biden and continuing transformation...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Aug 10, 23] Ep29: Flying to Win, Chester

August 10, 2023 14:02 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MB

Airpower doesn’t work if the pylons and racks are empty. Tyler Hacker of CSBA joins us to discuss his new report on future munitions and production challenges. And one Air Guard unit’s innovative outreach to get young people interested in things with wings. Of course, the hot headlines in airpower live here. It’s a blast!

[Aug 09, 23] Threats from China w/ Mark Montgomery & Securing Uncrewed Platforms w/ Tobias Whitney

August 09, 2023 16:01 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB

On this week’s Technology Report, Mark Montgomery of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies discusses China’s persistent penetration of Japan’s defense networks in 2020 and again in 2021, US and Japanese efforts to help Tokyo eject Beijing from those networks, and how the disclosure of the intrusion by The Washington Post could impact US-Japan relations; and Tobias Whitney, the vice president of strategy and policy at Fortress Information Se...

[Aug 08, 23] Command & Control Series Pt 5 w/ Bryan Clark & Greg Grant

August 08, 2023 15:36 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

In the fifth of a six-part series on command and control, sponsored Ultra Intelligence & Communications, Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute think tank, and Greg Grant, a senior adviser with the Special Competitive Studies Project — the nonprofit that emerged from the wake of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence — discuss the status of the Pentagon’s top priority Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Contro...

Daily Podcast [Aug 07, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

August 07, 2023 17:08 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses Ukraine’s recent strikes against Russian infrastructure, naval and commercial ships in Crimea, an update on Kyiv’s counteroffensive to claw back territory from Russia, the scale of Moscow’s incessant cruise missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian targets, the support Russia is getting from China, North Korea and Iran, and the latest unmanned systems developments; and Byron Callan of the independen...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Aug 07, ’23 Business Report]

August 06, 2023 19:46 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as the Fitch downgrades US credit from AAA to AA+ over concerns that Washington has no plan to deal with burgeoning debt and new job creatio...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable Aug 04, ’23]

August 04, 2023 13:50 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss implications of the Biden administration’s decision to keep US Space Command in Denver instead of moving it to Alabama as promised by former President Trump as the Al...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Aug 03, 23] Ep28: Memo for the Chief

August 03, 2023 15:39 - 47 minutes - 108 MB

The U.S. Air Force has a new Chief of Staff on the way. We asked a panel of airpower thinkers to fill in the new Chief’s agenda, and the results are fascinating. And there’s a new fighter in European skies, but with a familiar shape. The man at its controls tells us all about this historic project. And air power headlines? We’ve got them!

Defense & Aerospace Technology Report [Aug 02, 23] John Cofrancesco on Latest Cyber & AI Headlines

August 02, 2023 15:10 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MB

On this week’s Technology Report, John CoFrancesco, the founder of Applied AI Company, discusses how to counter Chinese malware in US military and national infrastructure, how much a national effort would cost, the Biden administration’s National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, the White House’s agreement with AI firms, the benefits of an AI enable society, how to think about AI weaponry, and South Korea’s potentially game changing LK-99 material that promises room temperature and amb...

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 01, 23] SVDG on Driving Actual Innovation

August 01, 2023 18:22 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MB

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, James Cross and Sam Gray of the Silicon Valley Defense Group discuss the non-profit’s inaugural NATSEC100 report on the top venture-funded companies developing innovative technologies and systems for national security applications, the role of government in picking winners and losers, the Pentagon’s obligation to more robustly fund companies it has encouraged to develop potentially breakthrough capabilities, and more with...

[Jul 31, 23] Mark Montgomery on Cyber, Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

July 31, 2023 17:16 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies discusses Chinese malware implanted across US military and national infrastructure that could hamper an American response to a crisis precipitated by China in the Indo-Pacific, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses Ukraine’s battlefield gains and Russia’s latest nuclear saber rattling, and Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners discusses key takeaways from last week’s earnings r...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jul 30, ’23 Business Report]

July 30, 2023 12:24 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as recession fears abate, a look at second 2023 quarter earnings as Airbus, Boeing, GD, L3Harris, Leonardo, Northrop Grumman, Safran, RTX an...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable July 28 , ’23]

July 28, 2023 18:46 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the $886 billion overwhelmingly bipartisan Senate version of National Defense Authorization Act and the elements tha...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Jul 27, 23] Ep27: Tankers and Missile Defense

July 27, 2023 13:49 - 44 minutes - 102 MB

The U.S. Air Force just passed a milestone with its first use of a commercial contract tanker. We discuss what it means and hear from the company that made it happen. And CSIS guru Tom Karako on the latest in air and missile defense. Plus your headlines in airpower!

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jul 26, 23] Bryan Clark on Applying Emerging Tech

July 26, 2023 15:16 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MB

On this week’s Technology Report, Bryan Clark, the director of Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, discusses the new paper he co-authored with his colleague Dan Patt — “Campaigning to Dissuade: Applying Emerging Technologies to Engage and Succeed in the Information Age Security Competition” — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jul 25, 23] Heritage's Bruce Klingner on North Korea

July 25, 2023 15:29 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation discusses North Korea under Kim Jong-Un’s leadership as well as new capabilities being developed to strike the United States, how to both deter and engage Pyongyang, opportunities in the defection of US Army Pvt. Travis King, whether it’s time for a new strategy that regards China-Russia-North Korea-Iran as a concerted threat or continue a siloed strategic approach, whether South ...

Daily Pod [Jul 23, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

July 24, 2023 14:35 - 32 minutes - 45 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses Vladimir Putin’s drive to show he’s in control by arresting right-wing commentary Igor Girkin, update on Wagner Group’s training of Belarusian troops, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claim that Ukraine has regained 50 percent of its territory, how Ukraine can get its grain to international markets through its own territorial waters and those of its neighbors, and the latest in unmanned warfare; an...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jul 23, ’23 Business Report]

July 23, 2023 21:18 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets, United Airline’s deal with pilots and implication for air travel especially at the front of the cabin as prices soar, analysis of second qu...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable July 21 , ’23]

July 21, 2023 15:50 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the Senate’s approach to the National Defense Authorization Act, update on appropriations, congressional antics incl...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Jul 20, 23] Ep26: Convo w/ Tom Burbage

July 21, 2023 02:00 - 50 minutes - 116 MB

The F-35 Lightning II is the biggest program in military history, and it deserves the longest interview in our history. In this special expanded edition, the man at the top of the program through some of its toughest times, Tom Burbage, joins us to talk about the fighter’s evolution.

Technology Report [Jul 19, 23] China's Hack of USG Computers & Making AI Usable

July 19, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MB

On this week’s Technology Report, Paul Ernst, the cyber security lead at Rebellion Defense, discusses China’s recent hacking of the State Department’s emails and how the nation should improve its cyber defenses; and Quentin Donnellan, the president of defense and space at Hypergiant, discusses on how the innovative company is helping the US Air Force realize its Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control future with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jul 18, 23] Dr. Jerry McGinn on 'Build Allied'

July 18, 2023 15:42 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MB

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Jerry McGinn, the executive director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting in the School of Business at George Mason University, discusses the new report he co-authored with Mike Roche — A “Build Allied” Approach to Increase Industrial Base Capacity — lessons from the Ukraine war, balancing sovereign national needs against the need for free trade, how to bring together allies and partners worldwide to rapidl...

Daily Podcast [Jul 17, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

July 17, 2023 16:25 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses Ukraine’s offensive including strikes on the Kerch Bridge as well as the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, takeaways from NATO’s Vilnius Summit, Vladimir Putin’s move to demote, fire or detain more than 30 generals, Turkey’s shift toward the alliance, and an update on UAV operations during the war; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the House version of the National Defense Authorizati...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jul 16, ’23 Business Report]

July 16, 2023 17:47 - 41 minutes - 57 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets.

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable July 14, ’23]

July 14, 2023 15:11 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the weeks top US and international security headlines.

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Jul 13, 23] Ep25: I See England, I See France

July 13, 2023 16:58 - 38 minutes - 89.1 MB

Airpower is everywhere in this week’s Air Power podcast, powered by GE Aerospace. Vago reports from the Air Chiefs’ Conference and Royal International Air Tattoo in England, including a discussion with former Air Marshal Greg Bagwell about the major issues. And he also speaks with brigadier general Marc LaBouil of the French air and space forces, who is leading a remarkable French deployment to Asia. Of course, there are the weeks headlines in airpower. And we apologize for some audio variabi...

Technology Report [Jul 12, 23] Maximus' Kynan Carver & Ultratech Capital Partners Dale Davis

July 12, 2023 11:05 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

On today’s Technology Report, Kynan Carver of government services firm Maximus discusses how to get to a zero trust world, cloud security and improving government and military security at the point of logging in; and Dale Davis of Ultratech Capital Partners discusses the Pentagon’s progress on better harnessing commercial technology for military gain and steps to improve its game, dialogue with DoD on the problems that need solving, and the outlook for capital availability as investors tighte...

DEFAERO Strategy Series [Jul 21, ’23] w/ Dr. Andrew Krepinevich

July 11, 2023 11:22 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, one of America’s foremost strategists who is now affiliated with the Center for a New American Security and the Hudson Institute, discusses his new book — The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers — that dissects lessons from four critical inflection points in the development of breakthrough military...

Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Jul 10, 23] Sam Bendett & Byron Callan

July 10, 2023 18:30 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the three-hour meeting Vladimir Putin held with Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders as well as top officials five days after the aborted mutiny spearheaded by the mercenary leader, status report on the Ukraine War and US decision to supply Kyiv with the cluster munitions it sought, and update on unmanned systems on the battlefield; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research fi...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jul 09, ’23 Business Report]

July 09, 2023 12:07 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets

CAVASSHIPS Podcast [Jul 07, ’23] Ep: 102 Preview of DSEI

July 08, 2023 01:09 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MB

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we take an early look at one of the largest shows  – The United Kingdom Defense and Securities Export exhibition or DSEI, held every two years in London. Joining us to preview the show and discuss international maritime issues that will shape the discussion is retired Royal Navy R...

Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Jul 07, ’23]

July 07, 2023 19:31 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act and its nearly 1,500 amendments that will hit the floor next week and the man...

Defense & Aerospace "All Power" Podcast [Jul 06, 23] The Year So Far

July 06, 2023 09:57 - 30 minutes - 68.8 MB

This week, it’s an ALL Power Podcast (powered by GE Aerospace), as we try a little jointness. The team (Chris Cavas, Chris Servello, Laura Winter, Vago and J.J.) comes together to review 2023 in space, aloft, and on the sea. Because it’s not too late to choose a new course!

Daily Pod [Jul 05, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

July 05, 2023 15:24 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses whether Vladimir Putin has been weakened by the recent mutiny, the method to his Dagestan visit, more money for the Army and National Guard, where’s Yevgeny Prigozhin and what’s next for his Wagner Group and other “professional military companies,” and an update on the Ukraine War; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses China’s decision to cut gal...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jul 02, ’23 Business Report]

July 02, 2023 10:21 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets in the wake of Wagner Group CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin aborted mutiny, how Russia changes as a threat after the chaotic weekend that saw mercenar...

Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Jun 30, ’23]

June 30, 2023 11:09 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, our producer and co-host of the Cavas Ships podcast Chris Servello, former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss the implications of the aborted mutiny by Wagner Gro...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Jun 29, 23] Ep24: We’ll Always Have Paris

June 29, 2023 12:34 - 44 minutes - 102 MB

On this week’s Air Power Podcast (powered by GE Aerospace), Aviation Week defense editor Stephen Trimble talks F-35, C-130, NGAD, and more. Safran Electronics CEO Franck Saudo discusses how they are overcoming GPS denial technology. And we have this week’s headlines in airpower. What more, really, could you ask?

Defense & Aerospace Technology Report [Jun 28, 23] Review of Headlines & Issues w/ Mark Montgomery

June 28, 2023 16:05 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB

On this week’s Technology Report, this week’s Mark Montgomery of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the executive director of the Cyber Solarium 2.0 project, discusses the science, technology, cyber and AI implications of House and Senate authorization and House appropriation markups of the Biden administration’s budget request, progress on cyber, the need to fund generational science, technology, chips and infrastructure legislation...

DefAero Daily Podcast [Jun 27, 23] Syracuse University's Dr. Brian Taylor on Latest Events in Russia

June 27, 2023 15:48 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MB

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Dr. Brian Taylor, a professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as well as the director of Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs — and author of, “The Code of Putinism” — discusses whether the brief and aborted mutiny by Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin will undermine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 23-year grip on power, whether Prigozhin’s scathing criticism and Putin’s clemency of the Wagner boss and...

Daily Podcast [Jun 27, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

June 26, 2023 18:19 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the questions in the wake of Wagner Group mercenary and convict force boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted drive toward Moscow, the outlook for Vladimir Putin’s longevity given security services failed to move to stop the mercenary force until Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ended the crisis by offering Prigozhin as well as his troops and their equipment asylum in Belarus, and an update on Ukrai...

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jun 25, ’23 Business Report]

June 25, 2023 21:47 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets, worldwide implications of a new four-year labor contract for Spirit AeroSystems’ workers that might yield a pay raise great than the 34 per...

Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable Jun 23, ’23]

June 23, 2023 18:30 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former DoD Europe chief Jim Townsend now with the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss House and Senate defense authorization and House defense appropriations markups, update on Ukraine supplemental tha...

Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Jun 22, 23] Ep23: French Lightning

June 22, 2023 14:46 - 39 minutes - 90.8 MB

French Lightning– From the Paris Air Show, on this week’s Air Power Podcast (powered by GE Aerospace), Lockheed Martin Aeronautics boss Greg Ulmer talks F-35, NGAD, AETP, and more. And we have this week’s headlines in airpower, including breaking some NGAD news. C’est formidable!

DEFAERO Strategy Series [Jun 21, ’23] w/ Dr. Paul Scharre

June 21, 2023 08:10 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB

On this latest episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Dr. Paul Scharre, the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, discusses his new book — “Four Battleground: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Daily Podcast [Jun 20, 23] Sam Bendett on Russia-Ukraine & Byron Callan’s Week Ahead

June 20, 2023 15:38 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MB

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the latest defense and aerospace headlines and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Jun 18, ’23 Business Report]

June 19, 2023 00:26 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MB

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy, join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as defense spending uncertainty returns to Washington, industry wide implications of Spirit AeroSystems’ new contract with unionized worker...