Susanna Blume, Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Program at CNAS, provides updates on the House Appropriation Committee’s Defense spending bill for fiscal 2021 and its alignment to the National Defense Strategy
Frank Lowery, Associate Administrator for Management and Budget at the National Nuclear Security Administration, discusses how a budget increase for the NNSA would support three main mission pillars and contribute to executing the National Defense Strategy
Bill Greenwalt, Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, discusses a new report about the impact of the National Defense Strategy on the defense budget, and the likelihood of budget increases
Former Defense Department Comptrollers Tina Jonas and Mike McCord break down how international tensions could create a need for more military spending, and how that money would be authorized.
Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation & Institute, discusses the lead times involved in updating equipment at the Pentagon, and ways to speed up the process.
Travis Sharp, research fellow at Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discusses what the FY20 Pentagon budget means for DoD goals, and how it slots into the National Defense Strategy.
Derek Tournear, assistant director for space in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, outlines what the Space Development Agency is looking for in the next generation of military satellites.
