Sensors & Electronic Warfare

France is to study Saab’s GlobalEye airborne early warning (AEW) platform as a potential replacement for its Boeing E-3 Sentry.

Recenty comments by industry officials will not change the SDA’s strategy to avoid cost-plus development deals for the Tracking and Transport layers.

The AESA radar would be able to generate synthetic aperture radar maps and “Cat 1” targeting data.

Ahead of an expected major award for a new fleet, delays hit prototypes that had been expected to be fielded in January 2024.

The passive, long-range sensor is being added to the Brazilian Air Force inventory through the Gripen acquisition program.

Faced with an expected influx of testing with current infrastructure and staff maxed out, Edwards AFB aims to reinvent itself.

Australian company is drawing on its space sensor background to hone in on reusable, low-cost UAS.

The CEO talks mergers and acquisitions, growth strategy and more in a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty.

The Defense Department has agreed to re-analyze the force structure plans for the Special Operations Command’s Armed Overwatch program, but not slow orders.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force has finalized a contract with Thales to acquire a Ground Master GM400α radar as the air arm continues its modernization effort.

Repeated sightings of a new form of low-observable features means infrared stealth technology is progressing out of military and industry laboratories.

The $280 billion largesse of the CHIPS and Science Act has started filtering down to the industrial centers supplying parts to Pentagon programs.

The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.

Leveraging cloud-native architectures can help the U.S. military modernize electromagnetic spectrum operations.

German defense electronics firm Hensoldt is snapping up its domestic competitor ESG for €675 million ($729 million).

Lockheed Martin’s two electronic warfare pod programs progress toward flight testing and airworthiness certification.

Most fighter aircraft made in the U.S. are in line to get improved radar warning receivers and self-protection jammers.

The announcement had been signaled last March when the military declared that P-8A is the only aircraft in production that meets requirements.

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the C4ISR market has slowed in 2023 compared to 2022, a new Capstone Partners report says.

The ramp up is taking place at Northrop’s Linthicum, Maryland, facility.

A request for information calls for data on sensors that could be used on a platform that would operate from at least 60,000 ft. to “exospheric” altitude.

Germany’s Pegasus sigint system has passed a milestone critical design review ahead of installation and integration onto three Bombardier Global 6000 bizjets.

The UK Defense Ministry says Moscow’s failure to thus far establish an airborne ISR capability in Ukraine has been a “critical flaw” in its invasion.

It increasingly seems that the only replacement for the Boeing E-3 Sentry is another Boeing aircraft.

Saab is getting ready to fly the UAE's fifth GlobalEye platform as the company sees an uptick in international interest in the business-jet-based AEW aircraft.