Boeing E-7 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C)

Major UK defense programs are struggling with a lack of key skills and experience to bring them into service on cost and schedule.

MFTS is just one component of the UK’s flying training pipeline.

The UK’s defense procurement process is “broken” and in need of “major, comprehensive reform,” lawmakers say.

The “joint vision statement” stops short of a legal contract but commits the three E-7 buyers to develop new capabilities together.

Boeing currently supports several training programs in the UK.

The Boeing 737-based aircraft will be deployed to Germany for six months starting in October.

Aviation Week editors talk with the Boeing Defense, Space and Security president about his focus on regaining stability for major development programs.

Boeing says it is moving as fast as possible on the service’s E-7, amid Pentagon and congressional pressure.

The completion of the studies was announced by NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency on May 12.

Saab unveiled a modified version of the GlobalEye AEW aircraft, at the South Korean Air Force’s Aerospace Conference 2023 on May 2.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach has been tapped to be the next commander of the service’s Air Combat Command.

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.

Boeing has begun building new infrastructure to support the operation of the UK RAF's new fleet of E-7 airborne early warning aircraft in Scotland.

The Air Force is planning to buy 10 Wedgetails over the next five years to recapitalize its air-moving target indicator mission.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.

The Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor is being developed to perform the functions of a radar, jammer and data link.

As the USAF looks to develop uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft to fly with future fighters, the service is also rethinking how it organizes these fleets.

Boeing, Saab and Northrop Grumman have responded to a NATO request for information for airborne early warning aircraft.