Sensors & Electronic Warfare

The DOD is stepping up investment in North American germanium producers to strengthen supply chains strained by China’s critical mineral export restrictions.

BAE Systems' sales growth generated in Europe is poised to accelerate after with the business there now surpassing the British defense company’s sizable Saudi Arabian activities.

An air-launched missile-carrying UAS developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for DARPA’s LongShot project has been designed the X-68A.

BAE Systems will transform the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II with dual-mode seekers to make the 2.75-in.-dia. guided rocket more effective at shooting down volleys of large numbers of one-way attack munitions.

A Boeing 757 adapted to test sensors for the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) has completed its first flights equipped with a new fighter nose fairing.

Saudi Arabia will acquire four Leonardo C-27J airlifters for maritime patrol, giving the kingdom a fixed-wing maritime patrol capability for the first time.

Northrop Grumman has unveiled a new active electronically scanned array to be produced using additive manufacturing and a more simplistic design.

Safran says it has acquired French resilient PNT specialist Syntony as part of a broader move among to deal with the scourge of GPS jamming and spoofing.

Hensoldt has struck a partnership with Helsing, the European defense AI company that is behind development of the CA-1 Europa collaborative combat aircraft.

Raytheon has demonstrated a new variant of the Coyote, a loitering interceptor, with a non-kinetic payload.

Indra says it will introduce upgrades for MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile that should extend the data link range and increase resilience.

Graeme Forsyth from ECS explains how the company’s Blacktalon system is managing threats from air land and sea.

Electro Optic Systems has opened a new high-energy laser facility in Singapore, marking the company’s first major manufacturing footprint outside Australia.

GA-ASI will explore the fitment of long-range standoff weapons on the MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAS as it looks to broaden the scope of roles it performs.

The Pentagon has called for a new generation of sensor and tracker systems to guide a future constellation of space-based interceptors into incoming missiles.

Saab CEO Micael Johansson says NATO may decide on an E-3 AWACS replacement this year, for which the Swedish company is offering its GlobalEye.

The Israeli government has awarded Elbit Systems 400 million shekels to equip incoming Sikorsky CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters for the country’s air force.

Saab expects partner Embraer to deliver the first Gripen E from a new Brazilian assembly line to the country’s air force before April, a company exec says.

The French plan to field a maritime patrol variant of the Airbus A321XLR has prompted growing interest in the Asia-Pacific region, the company says.

Rafael is boosting its focus on space while it awaits a decision by the Israeli government about taking the state-owned defense technology specialist public.

Israeli supplier Elbit Systems is pursing the market to use the Embraer C-390 as an airborne intelligence platform, displaying a model at Singapore Airshow.

Singapore has selected the Saab Giraffe 1X radar to replace its Portable Search and Target Acquisition Radar for low-level air defense missions.

Singapore is set to deploy a new constellation of SAR satellites as it builds out its Earth-observation portfolio, including through a partnership with Airbus.

Leonardo has started building the first satellites for a company-funded, multi-sensor low-Earth-orbit constellation, with launches to start next year.

South Korea has begun the air-to-ground testing phase of Hanwha Systems' AESA radar integrated on the Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 fighter.