Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily."
Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec

Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio.

You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News.
Like us at Bloomberg Radio on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @carolmassar @timsteno and @BW

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.

SpaceX has won a contract for more than $4 billion to build satellites to track foreign aircraft and missiles as part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome defensive shield.
The space-based tracking network integrates space sensors, communication systems and AI-enabled ground processing to look and alert for airborne threats from orbit, according to a US Space Force statement Friday. The US had been using ground-based sensors and military aircraft to monitor the skies, but placing detection capabilities in space could eliminate potential blind spots, the Space Force said.

The $4.16 billion award underscores SpaceX’s deepening ties to the Pentagon and its close involvement with Golden Dome, which is intended to protect the US from attacks through layered defense systems ranging from Earth to space. SpaceX is already under contract to develop prototypes of space-based interceptors for the project and is part of a multi-company software consortium building the operating layer underpinning Golden Dome, Bloomberg has reported.

On this episode, guest host Christina Ruffini and Tim Stenovec speak with:

• Sana Pashankar, Bloomberg Space Reporter
• Zack Gharib, President, Red Roof on expansion into Canada, consumer trends and travel behavior
• Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Hardware and Networking Analyst on On Dell Soars Most in Two Years on Outlook Fueled by AI Servers
• Dr. Amesh Adalja, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Bloomberg School of Public Health Senior Scholar on Ebola latest/health news roundup
• Deborah Harpur, Founder and CEO, FanClub AI on FanClub AI, a new venture building rights infrastructure for the generative AI era

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.

Food is an essential part of every workday; it brings employees together to connect and enables collaboration. But it's often unmanaged, with multiple vendors, decentralized spend, and no single owner. 92% of employers say that providing food makes employees more productive, and 86% of hybrid employers say food encourages employees to work onsite. ezCater is a workplace food tech platform that connects organizations of all sizes and industries with over 125,000 restaurants nationwide to make food easy to order, manage, and scale.

For more, guest hosts Matt Miller and Alexis Christophorous spoke with Nihad Rahman, CEO of ezCater.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.