A U.S. Defense Department agency is shopping for a computing system powerful and efficient enough to process and interpret hundreds of terraflops of imagery data from systems on board manned and unmanned aircraft.

Privately held British defense company Cobham and UK defense electronics specialist Ultra Electronics said Aug. 16 that they had reached an agreement for Cobham to buy Ultra for almost £2.6 billion ($3.6 billion).

The Korean Coast Guard (KCG) has procured two Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1CG Surion search and rescue helicopters.

The timing of a potential production line shutdown at Boeing is partly driving an urgent near-term decision on when to start replacing the U.S. Air Force’s E-3 AWACS fleet, with the 737NG-based E-7 Wedgetail emerging as a likely, if challenging, candidate. 

German defense electronics firm Hensoldt has been awarded study contracts to investigate the modernization of the Eurofighter’s Praetorian self-defense suite.

The U.S. Navy plans to buy 70 MQ-4Cs, including five prototypes, with an average recurring unit cost of $153 million.

An automated data feed translation tool has been transferred by DARPA’s Mosaic program to the U.S. Air Force.

A tacair subcommittee member has proposed that the Air Force study the “feasibility and advisability” of integrating a Raytheon ALQ-249 mid-band radar jammer on its tactical fighter fleet.