The electronic attack payload adds to the Army’s evolving plans to acquire high-altitude platforms.

The 4-hr. flight of the modified Gulfstream G550 business jet from Waco, Texas, begins the L3Harris’ flight test phase of the Compass Call mission system.

The Air Force’s future ground-moving target indication capability from space will be a scaled-up version of an existing NRO-designed constellation.

Mercury Systems had a respectable fiscal 3Q, but overshadowing the performance was significant pressure on margins tied to slow-moving development programs.

The U.S. Air Force has pressed to accelerate its E-7A Wedgetail program to replace the aging E-3 AWACS and has received increased funding to do so.

The U.S. Army is setting the requirements and looking to release a request soon for the second phase of the high-altitude ISR prototype program.

The Long Range Tactical UAS targets the same size of UAS as the Marines’ existing Close Range UAS, which is the 48.5-lb., rail-launched Insitu Scan Eagle.

The Air Force plans to use the EC-37B as a pathfinder for a new approach to the airborne electronic attack mission, but the service is not sure it will work.