Cyber

Counter-drone spending is moving beyond militaries and toward infrastructure owners. Recent incidents are widening the addressable market for protection, sensing, and site-resilience systems.

Keith Hardiman has been approved as chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, putting a permanent leader over enterprise IT, cybersecurity, data, and AI at a point when digital resilience is feeding directly into force design and programme execution.

T2S has secured a major defence cyber infrastructure contract. The award underlines how zero trust, AI security tooling, and C5ISR hardening are now being bought as long-cycle capability programmes.

Cyber resilience increasingly defines industrial readiness across defence supply chains. Infosecurity Europe’s 2026 agenda reflects how production continuity now sits inside the security conversation.

Airbus is enlarging Britain’s sovereign cyber-industrial base through acquisition now. Its agreement to buy Ultra Cyber adds more than 200 specialists in Maidenhead, extends UK cyber engineering depth, and brings in airborne datalink capability alongside the group’s existing Newport and continental European footprint.

Ukraine is institutionalising battlefield software development at speed now. The launch of the Defence AI Center “A1” signals a more structured push to turn combat data, autonomous systems, and command tools into deployable military capability.

Prague talks sharpen NATO’s cyber focus on scalable resilience today. NATO allies and Indo-Pacific partners have agreed to deepen cyber defence cooperation, with discussions shifting attention toward AI-enabled detection, expert exchange, and more anticipatory resilience against state-backed threats.

The UAE is stress-testing cyber resilience for essential infrastructure operators. Its latest exercise focused on continuity, coordination, and decision-making under pressure.

Cyber defence now depends on securing machines, identities, and code. A new threat intelligence report warns that agentic AI is accelerating cyber risk for defence contractors and the wider industrial base around them.

Tanium’s CMMC Level 2 win tightens defence cyber compliance rules. The certification positions its endpoint platform for contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information, as the US Department of Defense phases CMMC requirements into solicitations and flow-down obligations across the Defence Industrial Base.