With the war in Ukraine prompting questions about the health and resilience of the defense industrial base, legacy defense primes this year seemed to steal back some of the limelight from the Silicon Valley-based tech startups.
Rob Wittman, who is currently the top Republican on the HASC’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee, is seeking the chair of HASC’s tactical air and land forces subcommittee next year.
Mara Karlin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, talks with Breaking Defense about the National Defense Strategy.
Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna of Breaking Defense discuss the biggest topics to come out of the Reagan Defense Forum.
“We're working with all the folks who have capital — could be private capital, could be whoever — to provide the investment," said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Check out photos from the annual Reagan National Defense Forum.
What Beijing may actually learn, Frank Kendall feared, was that "if we're going to go and do an act of aggression, we have to do it in a way which [is] much more decisive."
The House and Senate are both expected to vote on the final bill next week.
"It's not a matter of money. I've got money. I’ve got big money,” said Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak, chief of staff of the Polish armed forces. "The biggest friction point globally is the capability of industry."
Eighty-two percent view Russia as an enemy, up from 65 percent just last year. That increase came from double-digit jumps across Democrats, Republicans and independents, highlighting that anti-Russian sentiment crosses the partisan divide.