Countermeasures News & Articles

Austal Joins Consortium for Guided Missile Manufacturing Enterprise

The Sovereign Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise (GWEOE) aims to enhance Australia’s self-reliance and supply chain resilience, with a longer-term aim of developing a sovereign-guided weapons manufacturing capability

Aug 20, 2021
C2BMC Upgrade Will Strengthen Ground-based Midcourse Defense

Lockheed Martin will augment the Command, Control, Battle Management & Communications (C2BMC) system’s engagement support capability for the ground-based midcourse offensive missile defense system

Aug 17, 2021
U.S. DoD Awards Contract for Integrated Counter Drone System

Citadel Defense will deliver a system designed to autonomously detect, classify, track, and defeat unwanted Unmanned Aerial Systems using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor fusion

Aug 16, 2021
RAF’s P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft Drops First Torpedo

The Poseidon aircraft successfully dropped a recoverable exercise variant of the Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo during a training flight that simulated an attack on a submarine

Aug 13, 2021
Sustainment Support for the F-35 Electronic Warfare System

BAE Systems will provide software maintenance, depot test equipment support, logistics analysis, obsolescence monitoring, technical field support, and reachback support for the F-35 U.S. Reprogramming Laboratory

Aug 11, 2021
MBDA Order Short-Range Air Defense Identification Systems

MBDA has awarded HENSOLDT France an order for 13 of its MSR1000I Identification Friend or Foe interrogators for very short range air defense systems to reduce friendly fire casualties and maximize combat effectiveness

Aug 11, 2021
Next-Generation Stealth Missile Seekers for the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile

BAE will produce next-generation missile seekers for the Lockheed Martin Long Range Anti-Ship Missile under a contract that will support the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. allies through Foreign Military Sales

Aug 03, 2021
U.S. DoD Awards Task Order for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

CACI will continue to provide the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with support in countering and deterring Weapons of Mass Destruction and threat networks

Jul 30, 2021
Successful Flight Test of Indian-Developed Surface-to-Air Missile

During the test, the Akash surface-to-air missile system, designed and developed by the Defense Research & Development Organisation, successfully intercepted a high-speed unmanned aerial target

Jul 30, 2021
IBCS Successfully Intercepts Cruise Missile Target

The flight test of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) demonstrated joint engagement in an electronic attack environment to successfully engage a cruise missile target

Jul 30, 2021
New Anglo-French Defense Technology Partnership

MBDA will lead the new Complex Weapons Innovation Technology Partnership in continued development of generation-after-next missile technology for the French and British Governments

Jul 27, 2021
Advancing Defense Capability Through Strategic Collaboration Defense Advancement works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive defense capabilities forward.