On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha partners discusses Lockheed Martin’s earnings, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup, and US-China-Taiwan relations; Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and the Center for a New American Security discusses Russia’s new Checkmate stealthy export fighter and unmanned news from the MAKS airshow outside Moscow; and Dr. Mark Lewis, the director of the Emerging Technologies Institute at the National Défense Industrial Association discusses takeaways from the address by Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Institute’s launch event with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.