Flat defense budgets may be looming. The military’s focus is shifting away from the Middle East to China and Russia. And bills on everything from modernization to AI to the nuclear enterprise are coming due.
Debbie Lee James, Former Secretary of the Air Force and Chair of the Defense Business Board, joins the podcast to take a look at relationship between industry and the Department of Defense, and how that applies to modernization...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall plans to move the Space Acquisition Directorate into the Space Acquisition and Integration Office. That merger, effective immediately, could accelerate the pace of fielding new capabilities.
Frank Kendall is the new nominee for Secretary of the Air Force. He served as Pentagon Acquisition Chief during the Obama administration. Deborah Lee James, Former Secretary of the Air Force, said the new Air Force secretary sh...
The Defense Innovation Unit is celebrating its fifth birthday. DIU reports a total of 208 Other Transaction Authorities (legally binding instruments used for rapid research, prototyping and production projects) in its five-year...
Deborah Lee James and Sean O’Keefe, Former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, discuss Lloyd Austin as defense secretary and Defense Department leadership under the Biden Administration
For three years I was honored to serve as secretary of the Air Force, and in that position, I witnessed the daily, significant demands placed on the Secretary of Defense — everything from White House and head of state meetings ...
Deborah Lee James, former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, explains how increased access to information could help defense contractors increase productivity and efficiency
Deborah Lee James, Former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, discusses collaboration between the Air Force and Navy on the Joint All-Domain Command and Control network
Remote work at the Air Force could outlast the coronavirus. Deborah Lee James, former Air Force Secretary, spoke with Government Matters’ Marjorie Censer about the future of work-from-home options in the Air Force.