Defense officials have said UK plans to develop a laser directed energy weapon are “on-track” despite the program suffering a year-long delay.

Engineering and government professional services provider Jacobs has acquired cyber and artificial intelligence specialist The Buffalo Group to bolster its offerings to the U.S. intelligence community and military.

A $350 million investment since 2017 in test and evaluation infrastructure for hypersonic systems has sat mostly dormant, but is about to get its first test.

Defense electronics companies in France, Germany and Spain have begun developing distributed sensors for the European Future Combat Air System.

CAE will supply the six MAD-Expanded Response (MAD-XR) sensors to Lockheed Martin for integration on the MH-60Rs during Phase 1 of the program. 

The Legion-Embedded System pod has been ordered by an undisclosed F-16 Block 70/72 customer and is available for delivery by new operators starting in 2023.

Historically, the ultimate cat-and-mouse game of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is associated with acoustic technology, with the classic sonar “pings” emitted from an enemy’s vessels or sonobuoys even becoming plot devices of Hollywood films.  As the tell-tale plankton of Gibraltar shows, however, the ASW community has always had other ways to detect submarines. 

The U.S. intelligence community recently held a meeting with the military services and combat support agencies to discuss Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), ensuring that each organization is on the same page, the head of naval intelligence says.