Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Sweden’s Saab is exploring and testing a suite of solutions that could aid air combat operations in regions where global navigation satellite systems are being jammed or spoofed.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force is working with the wind farm industry and the government to develop methods to mitigate the interference caused by wind turbines on air defense radar systems.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has demonstrated a new manned-unmanned (MUM-T) teaming technology in a flight test sponsored by the Strategic Capabilities Office, the company said Sept. 29.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Griffon of New York City is looking to sell its defense electronics division, Telephonics, the company announced late Sept. 27.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
China has again flexed its domestic fighter-development capabilities at the Zhuhai Airshow, this time flying the Chengdu J-20 with the locally built WS-10C turbofan as well as rolling out the Shenyang J-16D electronic warfare aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A move by the U.S. Army to field a large, fixed-wing surveillance aircraft could face an extra layer of scrutiny within the Pentagon.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has expanded sales and options for gallium nitride-enabled active electronically scanned array radars for fighters.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Jen DiMascio
Missile tests on the Korean Peninsula; MQ-25’s third customer; Vertex’s Raytheon training pickup; and Capella provides a SAR sampler.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Thomas Huber will lead Mercury’s “1MPACT” strategic review announced last month during its fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 earnings release, when it acknowledged a slowdown in organic business growth.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a multifunctional datalink featuring a compact, hexagonal array and a stealthy waveform, with the goal of offering a new retrofit option for existing combat aircraft and a new networking tool for future combat aircraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Communications & Power Industries, the space and defense technology roll up owned by Odyssey Investment Partners, will acquire Essco, which designs and manufactures specialty radomes and composite structures, from L3Harris Technologies.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a full-scale demonstrator concept that would use active flow control technology.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Nicolas Chaillan, the U.S. Air Force’s first chief software officer, announced his resignation Sept. 2 in a lengthy social media post calling out the service for not effectively funding and prioritizing cybersecurity efforts, and the Pentagon for refusing to put money behind initiatives that officials claim are priorities.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo’s Osprey flat-panel active electronically scanned array radar has been adopted for use by Canada’s National Aerial Surveillance Program to patrol the country’s vast coastline.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has requested billions of yen to study and develop both defensive and offensive capabilities in the unmanned, hypersonic, electronic warfare and space domains.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Robert Mehrabian will resume his role as Teledyne's chairman, president and chief executive officer after current officeholder Al Pichelli retires on Oct. 15.
Connected Aerospace

By Chen Chuanren
Chinese state media reported on the launch of the weapon without specifying the designation, but the images suggest the system strongly resembles the Dong Feng-15B class of missile with a new series of warhead.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
Adding brains to the Reaper; Japan tests KC-46; BlackSky, Palantir team up; and U.S. Air Force hires Red 6 for T-38 synthetic training.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Savi Technology, an asset-tracking specialist once spotlighted by the Pentagon and bought by Lockheed Martin before being spun out, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Defense Department agency is shopping for a computing system powerful and efficient enough to process and interpret hundreds of terraflops of imagery data from systems on board manned and unmanned aircraft.
Program Management

By Michael Bruno
Privately held British defense company Cobham and UK defense electronics specialist Ultra Electronics said Aug. 16 that they had reached an agreement for Cobham to buy Ultra for almost £2.6 billion ($3.6 billion).
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The Korean Coast Guard (KCG) has procured two Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1CG Surion search and rescue helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The timing of a potential production line shutdown at Boeing is partly driving an urgent near-term decision on when to start replacing the U.S. Air Force’s E-3 AWACS fleet, with the 737NG-based E-7 Wedgetail emerging as a likely, if challenging, candidate.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
German defense electronics firm Hensoldt has been awarded study contracts to investigate the modernization of the Eurofighter’s Praetorian self-defense suite.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy plans to buy 70 MQ-4Cs, including five prototypes, with an average recurring unit cost of $153 million.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare