Sensors & Electronic Warfare

The most contentious U.S. defense issue lawmakers will debate before crafting the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill is nuclear modernization, a senior lawmaker says.

The UK will face a gap of at least nine months in its airborne early warning capability after deciding to retire its Boeing E-3 Sentry fleet by December 2022.

The U.S. Navy has disclosed the fiscal 2021 budget request for the Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout is not directly tied to solving problems discovered in operational testing, but fixes are slated before first deployment.

BAE Systems is working at building up a low-profile Australian business in high-frequency radio technology, a key aim being to export skywave over-the-horizon radars.

BAE Systems Chairman Sir Roger Carr has described the company’s planned acquisitions of Collins’ Aerospace Military Global Positioning System and Raytheon’s Airborne Tactical Radios business as being at the “sweet spot” of the company’s strategic ambition.

Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.

DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.

U.S. Air Force decides to trade-off current capabilities in the near-term to finance next-generation projects.

The service says there are sufficient quantities of the airborne system to support the National Defense Strategy.

Next-Generation Interceptors could be emplaced in the ground by the end of the decade.

A multi-target air-to-air weapon and gun-armed close-support missile are among new projects DARPA plans to launch in fiscal 2021. New approaches to communicating in contested environments, attacking signals and countering laser weapons are also on the list.

Making airlifters and refuelers more survivable and capable emerges as new priority.

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.

The market for radar images and radio frequency mapping from space still relies on military and government customers.

UK gains P-8 maritime patroller; L3Harris spacecraft clears design hurdle; IAI makes deals in India; Germany scraps UAV purchase plan.

How will U.S. refuel aircraft?; Poland set to sign for F-35s; Raytheon’s new missile-warning data contract; Russia to export the Mi-38.

The signature disruption at the second-busiest UK airport has made the business case for installing counter-drone systems.

How the U.S. Air Force plans to disrupt command and control, military acquisition and the industrial base with ABMS.

The city-state’s air bases are increasingly vulnerable. It obviously sees STOVL as an answer.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), one of two large warship manufacturing companies for U.S. naval services, is continuing to make headway in its efforts to diversify its business portfolio with a major new U.S. Air Force contract to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).

Israel’s precision weapons are sold all over the world, but struggled to break into world’s most lucrative market until recently

Optical sensors have joined Israel’s elaborate and increasingly more powerful air surveillance network

The U.S. Air Force is planning to hold its second demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management System in April, in which an unmanned aircraft system will fly with a government-owned open communication system used for translating waveforms to communicate with the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

Many features of the West’s futuristic vision for a distributed command and control network is already in service by the IDF.

BAE is expected to pay $1.925 billion for Collins’ GPS business and another $275 million for Raytheon’s radio business