Podcast appearances and mentions of susanna blume

Wes Hallman, senior vice president of policy at the National Defense Industrial Association, details a recent review of the Defense Industrial Base, and how their cybersecurity can be improved. Susanna Blume, senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at CNAS, discusses the Army leadership’s approach to the FY21 budget. Reporters Roxana Tiron and Travis Tritten from Bloomberg Government break down what Congress thinks about the FY21 military budget request, and what that means for future Pentagon plans.

On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss the week on world markets with guests “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group consultancy and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners; Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security on their Congressionally mandated China report; Dr Robert Pleming, the chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust. Topics: — Impact of spreading coronavirus on global air traffic — Boeing’s 2019 financial results and strategic direction of new CEO David Calhoun — Airbus’ 3.6 billion euro penalty to address commercial aircraft bribery charges and Skytra initiative to help airlines hedge ticket price swings — Review of 2019 earnings disclosures by Lockheed Martin and other leading players — Britain’s departure from the European Union after 47 years of membership — London’s decision to allow Huawei to supply 5G systems for non security or defense applications — A look at the Center for a New American Security’s “Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific” — Dr Robert Pleming, the chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, on raising money for a permanent home for the iconic AVRO Vulcan bomber, The Spirit of Great Britain

There has been years of continuous procurement reform for the Defense Department. Tinkering by Congress has rendered procurement into a sort of laboratory. And each of the armed services is running its own experiments according to Susanna Blume, is senior fellow and director of defense programs at the Center for a New American Security. She joined the show to explain.

Patrick Murphy, Former Congressman (D-PA), discusses the need to keep GI Bill benefits going for future generations of soldiers, and why it’s important that veterans run for office. Suzanne Spaulding, senior adviser for Homeland Security at the CSIS International Security Program, discusses how “cybersecurity” has become too broad, and the need to break up the term for educating the public. Susanna Blume, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the CNAS Defense Program, details how military branches are taking different approaches to procurement, and how each one is working.

On this Thanksgiving-week roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Cmdr. Guy “Bus” Snodgrass, USN (retired), CEO of Defense Analytics and author of the new book Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis and Richard V. Spencer, the 76th US Navy secretary. Topics: — Analysis of Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper’s drive to revolutionize how the US Air Force develops and builds future aircraft and weapons — The implications of President Trump’s involvement in the military chain of command and the departure of Richard Spencer as US navy secretary — Spencer in his own words at the Halifax International Security Forum before leaving office

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, segment one guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security and Bill Greenwalt,  former Pentagon industrial policy chief, now the Atlantic Council. Our segment two guest include Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon Comptroller, now on the board of the Atlantic Council think tank, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle. Topics: — House Appropriations and Armed Services’ marks — Border Wall finding, possible Mexico tariffs and defense  — Spending caps — Administration’s “mines to magnets” rare earths strategy  — Trump’s UK visit — Drifting Iraq focus — Shifting Iran Strategy  — White House Mideast peacemakers proposal

Susanna Blume, senior fellow and deputy director of the defense program at CNAS, discusses the drafts for the 2020 NDAA, and why it might see a contentious conferencing. Deborah Lee James, former Secretary of the Air Force, details her views on the House version of the NDAA, and why it might be lacking some large programs. Brenda Farrell, director of DoD Strategic Human Capital Management at GAO, discusses a new report on racial and gender disparities in the DoD justice system, and why keeping detailed data on the subject is important.

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security and  Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council, Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon Comptroller, now on the board of the Atlantic Council think tank and Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council.  Topics:  — The Trump administration’s 2020 defense budget request — Program and priority highlights — Congressional reaction — Implications of Cost Plus 50 percent and European Deterrence Initiative funding shift

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests for segment one: Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security and  Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council; for segment two: retired Army Colonel Frank Sobchak, coeditor of the Army's Iraq War lessons learned and Michael Gordon, national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Segment one topics: -Latest on the government shutdown -Expect budget challenges Segment two: The U.S.Army's Study on the Iraq War

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle. Topics Include: · Budget outlook and prospect of a government shutdown · Latest Brexit news and global impact of UK domestic politics · US-Saudi Arabia relations after Senate vote on Khashoggi murder and Yemen · US-China relations after Huawei arrest and trade war · The week ahead

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners,  Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council,Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle. Topics Include: -Defense dynamics after the midterm election results  -2020 budget deliberations -International reaction to the midterms -Iran sanctions -A look at the week ahead

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based freelance reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle. Topics: -Boeing, Saab and GE win of the Air Force TX trainer contract · Boeing, Saab and GE win of the US Air Force’s $9.2 billion TX trainer contract · President Trump’s recent remarks to the UN General Assembly and Security Council · US and European views on new Iran sanctions and the effects on trans-atlantic defense policy · Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ statements on combat jobs for women · Budget update … what to expect over the next week

On this week's episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, we discuss the outlook for US involvement in Syria, the potential for US-China trade war and more. Our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

On this week's episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell, we discuss ongoing congressional budget deliberations, NATO defense spending, CACI's competing bid to acquire CSRA, the past week in the defense industry and more. Our guests include Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council, former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale, PhD, (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton -- his thoughts are his own) and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners in London.

This week Susanna Blume joins to tell us how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill - the defense budget, continuing resolutions, and other congressional hijinks. And Radha returns from maternity leave! Then we wade through the president's Jerusalem announcement and recent Brexit breakthroughs, before dissecting the new National Security Strategy. And of course we discuss Season 2 of "The Crown" - and our new gift guide!   Episode Reading: Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability,” CNAS Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job,” CNAS Max Fisher, “The Jerusalem Issue, Explained,” New York Times Ishaan Tharoor, “The many casualties of Trump’s Jerusalem move,” Washington Post Tony Connelly, “Brexit and the Irish Border: How the deal was salvaged,” RTE BBC, “Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘good news’ for all voters,” BBC Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, “Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU,” BBC Kate Brannen, "Trump's National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian," The Atlantic Salman Ahmed and Alexander Bick, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: A New Brand of Mercantilism?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ilan Goldenberg, “The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision,” Slate Kori Schake, “The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar,” Atlantic Mira Rapp-Hooper, “America Is Not Going to Denuclearize North Korea,” Atlantic

This week Susanna Blume joins to tell us how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill - the defense budget, continuing resolutions, and other congressional hijinks. And Radha returns from maternity leave! Then we wade through the president's Jerusalem announcement and recent Brexit breakthroughs, before dissecting the new National Security Strategy. And of course we discuss Season 2 of "The Crown" - and our new gift guide!   Episode Reading: Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability,” CNAS Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job,” CNAS Max Fisher, “The Jerusalem Issue, Explained,” New York Times Ishaan Tharoor, “The many casualties of Trump’s Jerusalem move,” Washington Post Tony Connelly, “Brexit and the Irish Border: How the deal was salvaged,” RTE BBC, “Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘good news’ for all voters,” BBC Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, “Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU,” BBC Kate Brannen, "Trump's National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian," The Atlantic Salman Ahmed and Alexander Bick, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: A New Brand of Mercantilism?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ilan Goldenberg, “The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision,” Slate Kori Schake, “The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar,” Atlantic Mira Rapp-Hooper, “America Is Not Going to Denuclearize North Korea,” Atlantic

Eric Fanning, former Secretary of the Army, and CNAS fellow Susanna Blume talk about the NDAA, DoD budget, and acquisition reform.

Susanna Blume, fellow with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses the new push for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Hosted by Neal Urwitz.