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  • Boeing contracts reinforce RAF surveillance support

    Boeing contracts reinforce RAF surveillance support

    Boeing’s new contracts reinforce Britain’s military-aircraft sustainment and engineering base. The £242.7 million package covers Poseidon support and the infrastructure required to introduce Wedgetail without placing a small fleet under avoidable availability pressure.

  • Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    Storm Fighter opens a new UK combat-air production race

    Storm Fighter opens Britain’s next major autonomous combat-air production programme. The initiative will test whether UK industry can combine affordable airframes, electronic warfare, propulsion, autonomy, and weapons integration at useful scale.

  • PLA procurement bans shake China’s military cyber supply chain

    PLA procurement bans shake China’s military cyber supply chain

    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.

  • Defence M&A reaches record volume as technology draws capital

    Defence M&A reaches record volume as technology draws capital

    Defence dealmaking reached record volume during 2026’s first half globally. Flat aggregate value alongside rising transaction numbers shows investors concentrating on specialist technologies, engineering teams, test assets, and production capacity.

  • India takes quantum-secured military networks into the field

    India takes quantum-secured military networks into the field

    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.

  • China’s Type 076 brings the drone carrier into production

    China’s Type 076 brings the drone carrier into production

    New footage reveals how China is engineering its Type 076. The ship combines amphibious capacity, electromagnetic aircraft launch, and fixed-wing unmanned aviation within a single 40,000-tonne platform.

  • ESA carries trusted test data from factory to orbit

    ESA carries trusted test data from factory to orbit

    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.

  • Voyager puts agentic AI into spectrum operations

    Voyager puts agentic AI into spectrum operations

    Voyager will develop agentic AI for military spectrum operations planning. The year-long programme will focus on explainable behaviour, human control, modular integration, secure data, software assurance, and repeatable testing across multiple domains.

  • RIMPAC turns four ships into a distributed factory

    RIMPAC turns four ships into a distributed factory

    RIMPAC will connect four ships through distributed additive manufacturing networks. The demonstration will test digital requests, machine allocation, material control, inspection, cyber-secure files, autonomous delivery, and installation authority.

  • Sentinel schedule pressure becomes a Utah building site

    Sentinel schedule pressure becomes a Utah building site

    Northrop Grumman has expanded Sentinel’s secure engineering footprint in Utah. The new facility will support systems integration, software, programme control, and classified collaboration across a complex missile and infrastructure replacement effort.