As the House and Senate return to Capitol Hill this month, they will continue working on the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes several provisions focused on counter-unmanned aerial systems technology, procurement and strategy.

The UK Ministry of Defence has disclosed first firing trials of a laser directed energy weapon demonstrator from a British Army combat vehicle.

Phoenix Air Group Inc. has secured a $165.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver airborne electronic warfare (EW) threat simulation services to the US Navy.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has received a not-to-exceed $520.4 million contract modification to fund production of the L3Harris Technologies AN-254(V)1 Viper Shield integrated electronic warfare (EW) suite for F-16 Block 70/72 Foreign Military Sales customers.

Sierra Nevada Corporation has been selected to supply two RAPCON-X airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to meet the needs of the Finnish Border Guard’s MVX program.

The US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for “On-Aircraft Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS)” solutions that could be used to improve aircrew situational awareness when operating near drones and to defend large aircraft against Group 1 and 2 UAS that could pose threats to the aircraft

PGZ Stocznia Wojenna shipyard has contracted Rohde & Schwarz to provide an integrated communications-band/radar-band electronic support measures suite for the Polish Navy’s new Miecznik frigates.

The US Navy has revealed fast-track plans to procure a military-off-the-shelf active expendable decoy for deployment from Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II strikefighters.