DEFENCE DECONSTRUCTED PODCAST

January 10, 2025

On this week’s episode of Defence Deconstructed, Jeff Tasseron discusses the imperative and the pathway for the creation of a Canadian defence industrial strategy with Wendy Hadwen, William Henagan, Trevor Neiman, and Craig Stone.

Guests:

• Wendy Hadwen is the ADM Defence Industry Policy at the Department of National Defence.
• William Henagan is Director for International Economics at the White House National Security Council.
• Trevor Neiman is Vice President Policy and Legal Counsel for the Business Council of Canada.
• Dr. Craig Stone is a CGAI Fellow and a Professor Emerita at the Canadian Forces College.
• Jeff Tasseron is Director of Business Development & Strategy at CAE D&S Canada and a CGAI Fellow.

This episode is a recording from our Procurement conference, which took place on November 25, 2024 in Ottawa. This conference was made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics and Hanwha Defence and Ocean, and our conference sponsors the Business Council of Canada, Raytheon, L3Harris Technologies, the Royal Norwegian Embassy to Canada, Amazon Web Services, Davie, and CAE.

Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding.