AGF’s speaker line-up puts Farnborough’s industrial agenda into focus again. The 2026 programme brings defence, finance, space, aviation, and emerging technology leaders together.
Federal’s Peak Alloy agreement moves ammunition cases into performance engineering. The US Army agreement could support higher-pressure cartridges and future small-arms development.
AeroVironment’s ceramics award targets materials for extreme aerospace environments applications. The $20m AFRL contract supports CMCs, additive manufacturing, embedded sensing, and thermal protection.
ROGUE-Fires Block 2 moves autonomous launchers into production discipline phase. The $92m award advances JLTV-based semi-autonomous vehicles for distributed expeditionary fires.
ICEYE’s new grant strengthens Europe’s sovereign space intelligence capacity base. The €28.3m award supports SAR, AI analysis, data fusion, and satellite production scale-up.
Sonaca’s F-35 facility deepens Belgium’s combat-air manufacturing role in Europe. The Gosselies site supports horizontal tailplane production within the global F-35 supply chain.
Schiebel’s S-300 selection pushes unmanned ASW closer to production readiness. The EU-backed SWORD project will test shipborne VTOL payload capacity for submarine detection.
Britain’s latest LMM order reinforces Belfast missile production capacity requirements. The £36m contract adds hundreds more missiles as counter-drone demand stretches short-range air defence stockpiles.
Uvision’s CORTEX system moves loitering munitions toward networked strike architecture. The system connects sensors, decision support, and multiple effector families into one mission-management framework.
QinetiQ’s submarine support work sharpens AUKUS sustainment planning in Australia. Additive manufacturing cut replacement-part delivery to four weeks during HMS Anson’s maintenance period.