[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its cacaption contt and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] vago elcome to defense news, i am vago muraradian. The u. S. Armys s chief of staff and w he will lead a force but first, sweden, the largest nation in scandinavia is a regional leader that has been traditionally reluctant to strike. But that changes as russia continues rhetoric and air and land and sea exercises. Recently, moscow threatens to target stockholm. Sweden isolsterg its relationships d exercises and increasing its 5. 7 billion Defense Budget by 10 over the next five years. It is imimproving its military lationship with the United States. Last week, the Supreme Commander of the swedens 54,000 strong top forces metith defense leaders in the united ates. He will retire in october after 40 years in uniform. We met him at the Atlantic Council think tank and i asked him whether the international counity is doing enough to prepare for moscow tha
Interfacing to bring technologies and give abilities to our war fighters, men and women in uniform. There are a couple that are important. The first is relationships and expense. We brought together 18 that has spent a lot of time in places where innovation and Venture Capital money is being spent. We have folks that have come, spent a lot of time in the labs, that have seen and understood how y so we are able to interface with them. That is key. The second big lesson is we are focused on capability gaps. What are transformational transformational ways we can use to apply to our program. The final key piece is having agility is one of the most important things. We are able to bring that with the funding and the oversight we have for the pentagon, thats when we see something that could add value for war fighters, we are able to execute quickly. Aaron matta we hear a lot from people similar in a duty to yours, that it moves slower than the commercial side. How do you manage to get a dod
Re france put on the streets 10,000 troops, and then over the weekend that was a friday, friday the 13th of november. They launched airstrikes in syria. There was a quick response. In belgium, two ministers have offered their resignation. In mourning. S there is question about what they can do to improve the security physician. There is a lot of discussion about how the European Union can share intelligence, but so far there is not a lot of positive response to that. Headlines,u also in the pentagon is under a civilian hiring freeze the freeze is related to the congressional order to reduce the u. S. Is moving forward to build up five bases in the philippines. They are kenyan monitoring the nearby contested south china sea. The governor must approve a plan that would bring a difficult supply for Service Members today cap u. S. Official said she believes there is no reason to reform the Current System. The under secretary of state for arms control and International Security emphasized t
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
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] welcome to defense news. A look at chinas 100 year strategy toisplace the United States as the worlds leading po look at the best war movies ever. But first, president obama has asked congress to approve military force against isis. The move has prompted a debate about president i power and americas role in the conflict. Administration Officials Say that the prolonged nature of t the opereration demands new legislation. Congress will start hearings asd week. Here to explain why the socalled a u umf is necessary are sthanie from the center f strategic and international ststudies and bill carter from the center for a new american security. Welcome to the program, welcome ba. Thank you. Thank you. What is good about this request and what isnt . This comes on a heels of dozens of bills dropped in the last congress. It appears that congress is raring at t