Defense Supply Chain Analysis

Apr 28, 2026
Editors reflect on a busy period for defense, sharing insights on Quad-A, Sea-Air-Space, Aviation Week's MALMS, the latest Pentagon budget figures, and everything else you need to know on air and missile modernization.
Apr 28, 2026
Apple cofounder’s venture seeks to fix a “broken” Earth-observation market.
Apr 27, 2026
A decade after the launch of Vision 2030, the Saudi defense industry can claim significant progress in its goal to localize more than 50% of military procurement.
Apr 08, 2026
Beijing controls 85-90% of global rare earth-refining capacity and more than 90% of high-performance magnet production.
Mar 18, 2026
European defense companies see a pot of gold under missile defense dome developments.
Jul 21, 2026
MBDA is launching low-rate production of the Spear 3 mini cruise missile after a series of successful flight trials.
Jul 21, 2026
Northrop Grumman is spending money to fix software bugs that have plagued the development schedule for two new anti-radiation missiles.
Jul 21, 2026
Embraer is considering adding a missile-launch capability to the KC-390 tanker transport and is also set to expand production of Saab Gripens.
Jul 21, 2026
Max Stewart, CEO of the GADC explains why aviation continues to be a target industry, the facilities they have established and what the county has to offer both OEMs and the smaller sector players.
Jul 21, 2026
Boeing is considering multiple operational MQ-28 Ghost Bat production sites as it pursues markets for the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA).
Jul 21, 2026
Andrea Pizzarulli, Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships at the newly independent Honeywell Aerospace, talks to Aviation Week about the company’s expanded Fiber Optic Gyroscope technology.
Jul 21, 2026
Pratt & Whitney has named its new family of small, scalable collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) engines the Valox.
Jul 21, 2026
Israeli defense technology specialist Rafael should be able to scale its Iron Beam laser air defense technology in the coming years to be able to intercept even ballistic missiles, says Chairman Yuval Steinitz.