Defense & Aerospace Report

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, 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 join host Vago Muradian to discuss squabbling over recent bipartisan budget deal, US and its allies strike Houthi missile sites that have been targeting Red Sea shipping, outlook for Ukraine aid as Kyiv is increasingly worries additional US and European help might not be coming, Taiwan holds elections, Israel continues to brush off US efforts to broker a peace deal, the Washington tempest in the wake of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, and the Iowa Caucus.

We look at the year ahead in airpower with a couple of expert seers: Mitchell Institute’s Heather Penney and Steve Trimble of Aviation Week. Plus this week’s airpower headlines. Powered by GE!

Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and Dr. Tom Karako of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discuss how Russia is stepping up its attacks on Ukraine and how Kyiv is taking the war to Russia while improving its defenses, increasingly critical role of nations like Japan in providing Patriot missiles as America and Europe inch toward approving more than $100 billion in military and economic assistance, Ukrainian efforts to dramatically increase drone production, how much longer Russia can sustain such high casualty rates, and details about Deputy Defense Secretary Kath Hicks’ Replicator effort with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On today’s program Chris Kastner, the HII president and CEO, discusses the shipbuilding outlook as the Biden administration and Congress strike a budget deal; inflation, supply chain and workforce; carrier, amphibious and other ship programs; industrial base investment and accelerating submarine production; improving skilled trades retention; and how the company’s growth in technical services and IT is improving it’s shipbuilding capabilities with Cavas Ships co-host Chris Cavas and Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On today’s program, sponsored by HII, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses big themes for 2024 and looks at the week ahead; and Chris Cavas and Chris Servello, the co-hosts of the Cavas Ships podcast, discuss what they expect to hear from US Navy leaders at the Surface Navy Association’s 36th national symposium Jan. 9-11 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

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 host Vago Muradian to discuss the big stories of 2024 including shifting economic expectations, global instability as defense spending driver, air travel demand, the FAA grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max 9 after an inflight depressurization incident as well as other near misses says about the aircraft production and air commercial air transport system, and impact of global elections on international security.

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, 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 join host Vago Muradian to look at what to expect in 2024 and their predictions on the stories to watch during the coming year.

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 host Vago Muradian to discuss the key events of 2023 that will shape the coming year. This is our last program before the holidays until we resume coverage on Jan. 5.

On today’s program, sponsored by GE Aerospace, the award winning hosts of the Defense & Aerospace Report’s award winning podcasts — Chris Cavas and Chris Servello of Cavas Ships, Laura Winter of the The Downlink, and JJ Gertler, the co-host of The Air Power Podcast — review the big stories from 2023 that will shape the coming year with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Technology Report, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is now the senior director 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, and Chris Cleary who until recently was the US Navy’s principal cyber adviser, discuss the key cyber stories of 2023 that will shape the coming year with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.