On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpha Partners and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International.

Topics:

— Update on fourth stimulus package and political calculations impacting negotiations

— News reports on $1 billion in Pentagon Paycheck Protection Program spending

— Implications of general and flag officers signing letters in support of candidates running for president

— Clash between White House’s ban on government-wide racial and gender bias training and Pentagon efforts to increase racial and gender bias training across the force

— Outlook for a 500-ship Navy and tradeoffs needed to achieve it