On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests (in segment one) are Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute; Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners and Defense & Aerospace Report’s own contributing editor Christopher P. Cavas; (segment two) Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Andrew Hunter, the director of the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Byron Callan.

Topics:

— Look at the US Navy’s decision to select Fincantieri Marinette Marine over Austal USA, Huntington Ingalls and General Dynamics with Navantia to supply the nation’s future anti submarine warfare frigate

— Analysis of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith’s willingness to use defense funding for pandemic response

— Outlook for defense spending as unemployment rises and stimulus spending grows

— Key elements of the Treasury Department’s latest Green Book

— Implications of reports that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has COVID-19

— China’s efforts to take advantage of coronavirus pandemic to burnish its international image as it competes against the United States for influence worldwide

— Impact of declining defense budgets on capabilities of European allies and partners