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Podcast: Defense & Aerospace Report
Episode: Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Mar 03, 2026] Ron Epstein on Iran Market Impacts & John Cofrancesco on Anthropic Blacklisting
Description: Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities joins Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on the sidelines of the commercial edition of Joanna Speed’s Aerospace Event in Los Angeles to discuss the market impacts of the US-Israel war on Iran, the limits of surging production of complex weapons, role of new entrants to deliver capability more quickly like the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack Syste by Arizona startup SpektreWorks, and outlook for defense spending including the resumption of supplemental funding to cover the growing costs of operations worldwide over the past year; and John Cofrancesco of American AI Logistic...