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The UAE is stress-testing cyber resilience for essential infrastructure operators. Its latest exercise focused on continuity, coordination, and decision-making under pressure.
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BAE has moved missile-tracking satellites closer to the factory floor. A completed design review now shifts Epoch 2 from architecture definition towards production.
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KNDS and EOS are widening the remote weapons supply chain. Their teaming deal points to fresh integration work around exportable, ITAR-free lethality packages.
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Babcock is reshaping how smaller suppliers enter defence programmes today. Its SME charter targets contracting friction, test access, and payment discipline across the UK industrial base.
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The Air Force is withholding fresh tanker orders from Boeing. That turns the KC-46’s unresolved boom, vision, and quality defects into a production test for a programme the service still expects to anchor US tanker recapitalisation.
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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.
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Integrated air defence is becoming a software and manufacturing contest. Leonardo’s Michelangelo programme is now moving toward a Ukraine test, turning a new multi-domain air defence concept into an early industrial and operational proving ground.
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Thermal concealment is moving from specialist gear into wider procurement. The US Marine Corps is seeking a multispectral overgarment that can reduce visual and infrared detection while still meeting strict requirements on weight, durability, and field usability.
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Anduril is expanding deeper into space defence manufacturing capability now. The ExoAnalytic acquisition adds a global tracking network, missile-sensing expertise, and a 130-person engineering team as the company pushes into space domain awareness and infrared satellite payloads.
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Britain is formalising hybrid fleet procurement with a 20-boat order. Kraken’s Project Beehive win gives the Royal Navy near-term operational testbeds and a broader industrial platform for serial USV assembly, autonomy integration, and support.