Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The imminent kickoff of the Enduring High-Energy Laser program gives industry a platform to mainstream directed-energy technology.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
Scout AI has raised $15 million to further develop its vision-language-action artificial intelligence model.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
A radio frequency directed energy weapon demo has proved it can counter drone swarms, UK trials show.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Thierry Dubois
Thales’ Talios targeting pod is a “very good candidate” to receive a new sensor window.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
A notice to industry calls for new technologies to integrate on USAF's upcoming Boeing E-7A Wedgetail fleet, while allowing for the possibility that the service could field another platform to serve the role.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
India’s defense development agency demonstrated an indigenous, land-based, high-energy laser in a live shoot-down event of a fixed-wing drone on April 13.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The UK has launched a tech challenge to identify ways to track “government assets or representatives” if global navigation satellite systems are disrupted.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
For the first time outside the U.S., a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has shared data with the Dutch information system Keystone.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Germany has formally established its new Eurofighter National Test and Development Center ahead of the introduction of the first Tranche 4 model aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Three companies will kick off the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Ephemeral Paragon program, winning separate contracts to develop adaptive EW technologies.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK Defense Ministry has begun exploring the market to find a replacement for the Crowsnest helicopter-borne airborne-early-warning radar system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Australia has selected the Northrop Grumman AN/ALQ-251 radio frequency countermeasures (RFCM) system for its new fleet ofC-130J Hercules airlifters.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
The administration is disrupting the $52.5 billion CHIPS and Science Act, raising questions about the security of military semiconductor investment funding.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The defense research laboratories of Australia and the UK have teamed up to jointly develop subsystems for new-generation low-cost weapons and munitions.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Kim Minseok
Anduril has signed three MOUs with South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration, LIG Nex1 and Korean Air to collaborate on uncrewed weapons and AI.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Dean Bellamy
Robust on-orbit sensing and characterization systems are critical to deterring hostile actions and maintaining freedom of access to space as a global common.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. State Department has expanded its Lockheed Martin F-16 C/D Blk. 70/72 package to the Philippines, as it hopes to secure a deal in Southeast Asia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
North Korea has revealed its new Ilyushin Il-76-based airborne early warning and control aircraft and a larger variant of the Saetbyol-4 high-altitude UAS.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The RAAF this year plans to recommend to its government how to move forward on fielding CCAs, with the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat "a very strong contender."
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Australia expects to use a series of demos with the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat CCA this year to define its investment plan for such a capability, an official says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Anduril is trying to interest the Royal Australian Air Force in its Fury CCA and would consider local production, the company's president says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Australian drone company Innovaero, which sports BAE Systems as a shareholder, has kicked off flight testing its OWL-X counter-uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Boeing plans to fire an air-to-air missile from its MQ-28 Ghost Bat uncrewed combat aircraft demonstrator late this year or early next, a company official says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Europe’s defense industry is getting ready for a surge in government spending that is driving companies to reset growth ambitions and strategies more broadly.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
L3Harris expects to deliver the first MC-55A Peregrine multi-intelligence platform to the Royal Australian Air Force this year, after several program delays.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare