Jeff Martin

Deputy Editor Aaron Mehta talks defense-industrial base changes with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Eric Chewning.

Executive Editor Jill Aitoro sits down for an extended interview with retiring Israel bureau chief Barbara Opall-Rome.

On this edition of Defense News Weekly, we’re at the Defense News Conference, learning about preparing for the great power competition. We’ll speak to the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, one of Congress’s leading voices on seapower and honor a Defense News legend.

Missed the 2nd annual Defense News Conference? Catch up here with some highlights.

Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, offers an update on some of the U.S. Navy’s top programs at the Defense News Conference.

In an interview at the Defense News Conference with deputy editor Aaron Mehta, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord provides an update on her office’s reorganization and the path ahead for acquisition reform.

Naval warfare reporter David Larter sits down with House Seapower subcommittee chair Rob Wittman (R-VA) at the Defense News Conference to discuss the Navy’s path to 355 ships and how to improve shipbuilding.

On this edition of Defense News Weekly we take a look at the legacy of U.S. Sen. John McCain join the U.S. Navy for F-35C carrier operations and go inside the backroom battle for a Space Force.

Defense News has learned that the U.S. Air Force’s hotly contested T-X trainer decision could come by the end of September.