Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The electronic attack payload adds to the Army’s evolving plans to acquire high-altitude platforms.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The 4-hr. flight of the modified Gulfstream G550 business jet from Waco, Texas, begins the L3Harris’ flight test phase of the Compass Call mission system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Air Force’s future ground-moving target indication capability from space will be a scaled-up version of an existing NRO-designed constellation.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Mercury Systems had a respectable fiscal 3Q, but overshadowing the performance was significant pressure on margins tied to slow-moving development programs.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
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.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Bristow’s S-100 Camcopters are being used to monitor small boats used for migrant trafficking in the English Channel.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is setting the requirements and looking to release a request soon for the second phase of the high-altitude ISR prototype program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The Long Range Tactical UAS targets the same size of UAS as the Marines’ existing Close Range UAS, which is the 48.5-lb., rail-launched Insitu Scan Eagle.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The Air Force plans to use the EC-37B as a pathfinder for a new approach to the airborne electronic attack mission, but the service is not sure it will work.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Teledyne reported record sales of $1.38 billion in the first quarter, up 4.7% year-on-year, as well as a best-ever operating margin of 17.5%.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok
DAPA has approved development for two missile-defense systems, one of which is designed to intercept hypersonic glide vehicles.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force needs to develop resilient space-based data transport, missile warning, tactical surveillance and navigation that can survive attack.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Raytheon is rolling out a new AI-powered electro-optical sensor it is targeting for integration on the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift aircraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems will fit Radar 2 into a development aircraft ready for initial flight tests planned for next year.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems is advancing development of a collective training system that could allow the numerous educational devices used by militaries to be fused.
Emerging Technologies

By Jen DiMascio
LightRidge Solutions, a private equity portfolio, is building space-based assets that offer protection designed to protect against on-orbit attacks.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The National Reconnaissance Office wants new technologies and processing for electro-optical imaging.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
A $100 million contract is a follow-on to a previously awarded program, Elbit said, but it didn't reveal the identify of the customer or the previous program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
U.S. agencies approved new software features, including the automatic ground collision avoidance system, and a new data link for Turkey's F-16s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced plans to develop an electronic warfare platform domestically.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Akaer and Intra are scheduled to fly the first Samoom by the end of the year, but the timing could be extended.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The concept scales up the Flying Launch and Recovery System (FLARES) developed a nearly a decade ago for the 58-lb. Scan Eagle.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The ALQ-249 replaces one of the three ALQ-99 tactical jamming system pods now used by the EA-18G.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The Joint Staff last year accepted a plan to cut the program of record for the MQ-4C by 46 aircraft, limiting orbits to the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf regions.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Japan has already sold the MELCO-built J/FPS-3ME air surveillance radar system to the Philippines.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare