In september. During his tenure, he advocated the cloudconcept. They successfully tested the concept over molly, and they are making it clear they are interested in experimenting with the idea. We asked to explain the top priorities. Fold. Priorities are two we have to get more responsiveness to our nato forces, and you working with our implement, butto it is not it is a major implementatione of nato. A second priority is to make everyone understand we need to some of the challenges we face today regarding the systems and hybrid scenarios. We had it identified before, but we did nothing because we were focusing on the present. We have to take into consideration what would be the future in order to make the best assessment on what we do today, and that is my priority today. Vago your command is in charge of driving lessons from major operations, and the last few years, and just right now, the variety of operations ongoing are staggering. If you look at the capabilities that russia demon
Training or in need of repair. Frank kendall defended the plan to gradually phase out reliance on Russian Rocket engines for u. S. Space launches. Testifying, kendall argued the base needs tomorrow for look for alternatives. Some leaders argued that an immediate end to the use of Russian Rockets is appropriate. They could replace the rd180 engines by 2020 at the earliest. Here to speak to that topic is beauchammp, gutt undersecretary for air space. Thanks for having me. There is a lot of talk on the use of russian engines, and actually development of alternatives to those russian engines for the space launches. Can you talk to me a little bit about the potential of the alternatives that are under development right now . Sure. This is an exciting time in the space the air force requires two launch services to be ability to launch the full range of payloads into orbit. We dont have that today. To incentivize those developments, we will let contracts that will fund the development of new
Vago what are some of Global Trends we saw . The stabilization of european picture. Year after the 2008 crisis, reducing spending about 2 a year. Is the end ofture the commodities cycle. This affects all away from the middle east and latin america. Tc decelerations middle east and about 10 a year. In themes down to 1 last year. The third major area is the study increases we seeing in asia and russia. Doubledigit until 2016. Vago last year you said that russia was going to be an unsustainable spending spree. Russia has had to cut back on social services, but has stayed on track on defense spending. How has that changed in the last year . Picture of the trajectory it was going great last year the russian economy click declined at 3 , while defense spending was evident doubledigit rate. That is not a single picture, and in 2016 average spending of 10 a year increase. They are basically the. I think from now on it will be a question of trying to maintain that level of spending rather than
Teaming with her. Martin. Ding lockheed design beat out a german competitor indsnf plans to build 12 submarines for an spacex has snagged his First Air Force contract. Gps3ontract to deliver the satellite is a time for spacex, which last year succeeded in certifying the rocket to compete for military space launches. Competitiony withdrew after congress banned the use of the russian rd 180 rocket engines for military satellite launches. Now we look at Public Opinion on defense spending. Joining me is the director of the university of maryland graham for Public Consultation and president of voice of the people. Thank yo jill you conducted a survey of 7000 registered voters. Talk to them a bit about defense spending. Why dont you give me an overview of the survey and maybe some highlights of the results . We gave a lot of information about the size of the Defense Budget and the current arguments pro and call on about what we should be doing about the Defense Budget. Made they came out is
Recent investments from both the commercial and defense sectors. That is according to the deputy debt deputy secretary of defense. The issue . Driverless technology from commercial firms like google may not translate to the kind of groundbased operations the pentagon performs. Army basic training may be getting longer. Service leaders say recruits and need more time on physical and marksmanship training. The course is already 10 weeks and it is unclear how look much how much longer at the army may make it. The service anticipates more failures as the Program Continues to get tougher. Is chris cavetts , who had an exclusive look at the navys new destroyer. Thank you for joining us. The shiphe second time has been at sea in the first the ship at sea. The ship has been under construction. It came out from the very first time for the initial builder trials. This is the ship in portland made dish in portland, maine last week. They came into for to do something unusual, that is pick up the p