Aviation Week editors discuss how space control is front and center for the U.S. Space Force, allied services and adversaries. 

The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

Latvia’s defense minister resigns after drone incursions expose airspace vulnerabilities, prompting leadership changes and calls for stronger defense.

Military planners face new vulnerabilities as defense becomes data-driven, exposing risks to cloud, AI tools and commercial satellites during conflict.

Conditions appear highly supportive of a mini defense boom in the Gulf, with budget revisions expected through the course of 2026.

Turkey has joined the small club of countries that have demonstrated autonomous collaborative platform operations between crewed and uncrewed aircraft.

The defense industry may be tempted to run out the clock on President Donald Trump’s executive orders. That could be a grave mistake.

Government intel agencies must move faster than ever to satisfy operators’ growing appetite for remote-sensing data.