The live-fly demonstrations for the Three-Dimensional Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) keeps the program on track for a follow-on integration and production contract early next year.

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node is expected to play a key role in the Army's future concept of operations.

The Pentagon has distributed its first-ever data strategy, which is integral for the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept that will link military equipment across the future battlefield.

The U.S. Air Force had already run Kubernetes in ground-based aircraft tests, but the Sept. 22 flight aboard a U-2S marked a new landmark in advanced software applications for military aircraft.

An electronic-intelligence aircraft converted from a Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter prototype moved to a tactics development unit on Oct. 1, bringing new but undisclosed signals-interception capabilities closer to operation for Japan.

Depending on the results of a planned demonstration in 2022, U.S. Special Operations Command could initiate a follow-on development program for an operational, 60-kW laser on an AC-130J. 

Electronic warfare programs feature prominently in the Japanese defense ministry’s request for funding for the next fiscal year.

The U.S. Air Force and Army have signed a two-year collaboration agreement to develop Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities with a focus on defining mutual standards for data sharing on a future battlefield.