Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Vivienne Machi
The Pentagon’s five-year-old space agency will face its biggest test when it launches its first operational spacecraft in the spring of 2025.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The UK and partners are including more counter-uncrewed air systems (C-UAS) and loitering munitions in a new £225 million ($284 million) package for Ukraine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
LQMs are sophisticated machine-learning models that are trained on vast amounts of data generated using physics-based methods.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The new company, Pulse, will be headquartered in Abu Dhabi.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
DLR is gearing up for flight trials of an AESA radar for German and Spanish Eurofighter combat fleets using a modified Airbus A320 testbed.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration has approved an F-15K upgrade plan in the midst of political turmoil.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
European officials plan to move quickly to put on contract risk reduction efforts for the IRIS² satellite communications program to mature critical tech.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
The trinational development of a next-generation fighter is using a less expensive airliner to test airborne systems.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The Iron Beam could help deal with two critical problems with Israel's Iron Dome: the mental strain on Israelis from constant air raid alarms and risk of debris.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
The EU and ESA signed a concession contract with a European industry consortium to deploy a roughly 292-satellite secure, sovereign communications system.
Satellites

By Chen Chuanren
BAE Systems Australia says its vertical-takeoff-and-landing uncrewed combat aircraft system, known as Strix, has made its debut flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Hensoldt CEO Oliver Dorre is looking to boost the German defense electronic supplier’s international footprint as part of a new growth plan.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Malaysia is drafting a long-term national space defense system plan, with the ambition of deploying its own military satellites.
Satellites

By Steve Trimble
A decade’s worth of investment to counter the latest Russian and Chinese threats is finally close to entering operational service across the U.S. fighter fleet.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The Indian government has given the green light to buy new electronic-warfare equipment for the country’s Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters and Coast Guard helicopters.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. has approved the sale of F-16 and APG-83 SABR radar spares totaling $320 million to Taiwan.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Smaller and lighter radars are becoming upgrade options for the Army’s weight-sensitive rotorcraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
The Commerce Department has finalized up to $35.5 million in direct funding for BAE Systems and as much as $23.9 million for Rocket Lab.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
Airbus says it is due to start delivering a new military satellite communications (milsatcom) modem to the UK for entry into service in 2026.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The Santa Clara, California-based company makes interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes for inertial navigation in GPS-denied areas.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Work is underway on a European-funded research and development effort to help protect aircraft systems from cyberattacks.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The new company, SNC AUS, will be based at Lot Fourteen, South Australia.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
In combination, the ACT and ORIENT programs are addressing underlying challenges with operating thousands of autonomous systems across all domains.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
Elliott says “the time has come to embrace simplification.”
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
Thales says it has signed a contract with NATO’s arms procurement organization to provide a ForceShield very-short-range air-defense system to Portugal.
Missile Defense & Weapons