On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests in segment one are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Michael Herson of American Defense International; in segment two we talk Army-Navy with John Schofield, co-founder of theProvision Advisors PR firm and co-host of the Sing Second Sports podcast.

Topics:

— Update on the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act

— Talks to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, prospects for Build Back Better as inflation hits a 40-year high and a look at appropriations process

— President Biden’s meeting with Vladimir Putin as Russia masses troops on the Ukraine border

— Biden’s decision to block US diplomats from attending the upcoming winter Olympic Games in Beijing

— The importance of Biden’s Summit of Democracies

— Latest on reviving the Iran nuclear deal and Israeli concerns with further negotiations with Tehran

— Takeaways from the Reagan National Defense Forum

— Special coverage of the 122nd Army-Navy Game with prominent US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy graduates on what the rivalry has meant to them as cadets and midshipmen, as officers, and as lawmakers, service chiefs and secretaries and as defense secretary, and why sports are such an important part of the service academy ethos and curriculum