Defense & Aerospace Business Report

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic advisory consultancy join host Vago Muradian to discuss the week on Wall Street during a strong earnings season; President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping trade truce; Trump’s pledge to help South Korea develop and build nuclear powered submarines in America and promise to resume nuclear testing after Vladimir Putin said Russia had successfully tested two nuclear powered nuclear weapon; the contours of the administration defense acquisition reforms; Airbus improves margin performance as Boeing announced a $4.9 billion charge on its long-delayed 777X jetliner program as the government shutdown hurts new jet certification and its St Louis workers remain on strike; Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury tells Dassault CEO Eric Trappier to get out of the SCAF next-generation fighter aircraft if the French company doesn’t like terms agreed when the pro