Cyber
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Babcock and Oxford are mapping Britain’s future defence-engineering workforce requirements. The study covers artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, digital engineering, and the established technical disciplines needed to deliver equipment.
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ST Engineering has secured new counter-drone deployments across Asian markets. The systems combine sensors, AI-enabled command software, electronic countermeasures, and hard-kill effectors for military and infrastructure protection.
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Congress has moved to preserve long-term cyber threat sharing protections. The House-backed extension would support continued intelligence exchange between government, defence manufacturers, technology providers, and critical-infrastructure operators.
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Cyber Shield places power-sector operational technology inside defence readiness planning. The exercise links factory resilience to physical process safety, utility continuity, and industrial recovery.
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Kimsuky turned trusted groupware suppliers into routes towards customer networks. The campaign exposes how software support, development systems, and vendor access can extend a defence manufacturer’s attack surface.
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Singapore is testing quantum computing against practical military planning problems. The programme will compare emerging methods with established optimisation tools while building national engineering expertise.
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Australia has selected SitaWare Headquarters for LAND 4140’s first tranche. Integration, cyber assurance, and continuous software modernisation will shape the programme’s industrial workload.
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China’s military procurement crackdown is reshaping its cyber supply chain. Supplier bans are forcing the PLA to confront licence continuity, software support, replacement hardware, and the cost of migrating embedded security systems.
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India has moved quantum-secured military communications successfully into field trials. The programme now faces the harder work of ruggedising photonics, standardising interfaces, and producing equipment in dependable military quantities.
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Keysight will lead Europe’s blockchain-enabled non-terrestrial network assurance programme research. The project will connect manufacturing and calibration records with operational telemetry, anomaly detection, secure data exchange, and an eventual in-orbit demonstration.