Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews Podcast

John Harris, CEO of Raytheon International, discusses global product demand, international sales growth, partnerships and much more in a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in a July 2018 interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Eric Chewning, deputy assistant defense secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy, says the US must leverage its “full national-security innovation base,” previews the Pentagon’s input into the Trump administration’s ongoing national industrial base assessment and strategy process, discusses industrial base considerations in contract awards, merger and acquisition approval policy, and much more in a wide-ranging, July 16, 2018, interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Randy Tinseth, vice president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, discusses his company’s deal to take over Embraer’s commercial aircraft business, ramping up 787 production rates, why the 777X should be seen as a replacement for the 777-300ER, Boeing’s DHL freighter deal, how the company is responding to international trade controversy and more in a wide-ranging, July 16, 2018, interview at the Farnborough International Air Show outside of London. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Jorge Benitez, director of the Atlantic Council think tank’s NATOSource blog and a senior fellow in its Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, discusses what to expect from the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, what President Donald Trump’s’ strategic goals should be both there and at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in July, how Trump’s diplomatic language may threaten the alliance and aide Putin’s efforts to disempower it, US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ role in American foreign policy, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide’s June 26 remarks at the think tank and more in an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian taped immediately after her speech in Washington.

Magnus Lewis-Olsson, Saab’s head of marketing for Europe, discusses Gripen E flight testing, weapons integration, international customers and interest, technology transfer, the aircraft’s architectural philosophy and more in a July 17, 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Andrew Kennedy, head of strategy at BAE Systems Military Air & Information, and Clive Morrison, the business unit’s operational requirements manager, discuss the Future Combat Air Strategy that was unveiled by UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson last week, the plan’s £2 billion Tempest combat aircraft program (led by BAE Systems in conjunction with Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and MBDA), why the aircraft should be seen as a “complementary capability into the future” with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter versus a potential replacement for it and much more during a wide-ranging, July 20, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Gen. Thomas Lawson, Royal Canadian Air Force Ret., the former Canadian deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and former chief of the defence staff for the Canadian Armed Forces,discusses NORAD’s legacy, deterring Russia, the US-Canada military relationship and more in a May 17, 2018, interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at the Embassy of Canada in Washington. The interview was conducted after a panel commemorating NORAD’s 60th anniversary that was co-hosted by the embassy and the Wilson Center think tank’s Canada Institute.

Gen. Vincenzo Camporini, Italian Air Force Ret., former chief of the Italian Air Force and the Italian Defense Staff, and current vice president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, dicusses his takeaways from the 2018 NATO Summit, the future of the military alliance and much more in a wide-ranging, July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Maj. Gen. Yoav Har-Even, IDF Ret., CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, discusses the $193 million US Army contract that it won in partnership with Leonardo DRS to provide its Trophy Active Protection System for use on Abrams tanks, the potential impact of transatlantic trade tensions on Israeli firms, US market opportunities and more during a July 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. Our coverage was sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.

Guto Bebb, MP, the UK’s former minister for defense procurement, discusses the country’s newly announced Future Combat Air Strategy and Tempest fighter, transatlantic trade war, the 750 million pound efficiency goal expected to be part of Britain’s upcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review, Australia’s decision to buy the Type 26 frigate being developed for the Royal Navy by BAE Systems and the outlook for a ground system strategy in a July 16, 2018, interview at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow outside London. This was his final media interview before his July 16, 2018, resignation over a Brexit vote in Parliament later that evening. Our coverage is sponsored by Farnborough International and Leonardo DRS.