The U.S. Coast Guard has worked to become a line of defense not only for our physical borders, but our cyberspace ones as well. Government Matters spoke with Rear Admiral Kevin Lunday, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command at the West 2018 conference in San Diego.

Frank Kendall, former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics and senior advisor for the International Security program at CSIS, discusses the potential for the trend of increasing defense budgets to reverse.

Inside the Pentagon editors Tony Bertuca and Justin Doubleday join Francis Rose to talk about the latest news from the Department of Defense.

Topics discussed on this edition of the Pentagon Beat include the National Defense Strategy, the DoD’s upcoming cloud computing industry day, and the Senate confirmation of new positions at the department.