Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable May 28, 2020]–NDAA, China, SPACEX launch
On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners; Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International, Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Christian Davenport, a staff writer at the Washington Post covering the space and defense industries and author of the 2018 book “The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos.”
Topics:
— Update on National Defense Authorization Act markup in House and Senate
— Demise of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the House after President Trump’s opposition
— Lawmakers’ view of China as tensions between Washington and Beijing increase over Hong Kong and proposed ouster of Chinese students from US universities
— Key takeaways from Bernstein’s annual conference
— Implications of SpaceX’s upcoming launch of the Crew Dragon that if successful will be the first commercial spacecraft — and crew — into earth orbit
— How SpaceX moves fast and lessons that government can learn to accelerate programs
— Outlook for legacy space contractors as a crop of new commercial providers enter the market