All About the Base

On this episode of All About the Base, Dr. Jerry McGinn unpacks the issue of resilience in the Pacific and ways to improve Australia's sustainment ecosystem with Mr. Jed Royal, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs.

The U.S. munitions industrial base must be rebuilt and recast for modern wars of precision and attrition. By analyzing DOD budget documents and industry announcements, Dr. Jerry McGinn clarifies the planned future and remaining challenges to achieving this goal. 

On this episode of All About the Base, Dr. Jerry McGinn discusses the enduring value and future roles of U.S. land power with Under Secretary of the U.S. Army Mike Obadal and former Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy. 

On this episode of All About the Base, Dr. Jerry McGinn unpacks U.S.-Canadian industrial integration with Ms. Joanne Lostracco, Minister at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. and Director General of Defence Procurement with Public Services & Procurement Canada.

On this episode of All About the Base, Dr. Jerry McGinn assesses where progress toward placing the industrial base on a wartime footing is being made across priority areas like munitions, supply chains, and allied cooperation, and identifies where greater focus is needed.

On this episode of All About the Base, Dr. Jerry McGinn joins the Cache Me If You Can podcast with host Lauryn Williams to discuss the progress and implications of the Pentagon's efforts to reform defense acquisition and field emerging technologies at speed and scale.

On this episode of "All About the Base" Dr. Jerry McGinn moderates a panel of Pentagon leaders at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Annual Acquisition Research Symposium & Innovation Summit on efforts to place the industrial base on a wartime footing.

On this episode of "All About the Base", host Dr. Jerry McGinn discusses how the U.S. Army is modernizing capabilities with commercial technologies in conversations with private capital, defense technology, and Army acquisition leaders at the Army Demand Signal Forum.

On this episode of All About the Base, host Dr. Jerry McGinn discusses the results of a TTX focused on the industrial capacity America and its allies need to succeed in a prolonged conflict scenario with Professor Mark Cancian, Senior Adviser with the CSIS Defense and Security Department.

On this episode of "All About the Base", host Dr. Jerry McGinn discusses the ongoing revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) overhaul and federal procurement reforms with Jeffrey Koses, Senior Procurement Executive for the U.S. General Services Administration.