Boeing E-7 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C)

NATO’s Airborne Early Warning and Control Force has taken delivery of its first Boeing E-3 Sentry upgraded to Final Lifetime Extension Program (FLEP) standard.

Aircraft WT001 got airborne from Birmingham Airport, England, shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 20.

The Combined Line Engineering facility at Lossiemouth, Scotland, has been built alongside the Atlantic Building.

The Air Force announced Aug. 9 the terms of its recently reached agreement with Boeing.

Boeing Defense and Space is trying to change its bidding approach by being more transparent and more strict about the programs it chases.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says the U.S. Air Force and Boeing have agreed to cost terms on production of E-7A Wedgetail prototypes.

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Selected to meet the initial Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (iAFSC) requirement, the Boeing E-7 will replace NATO's aging E-3 Sentry fleet by 2035.

After being shut out of a patrol fleet acquisition, Ottawa’s aerospace industry is gearing up to compete for a new airborne early warning contract.

According to data from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery Military tool, NATO’s ISR fleet only counts 19 aircraft, but these modest numbers belie the strength of the alliance’s combined ISR capability.

Canada plans to spend more than C$5 billion ($3.65 billion) on the acquisition of airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, defense officials have confirmed.

Continued delays and cost increases to the U.S. Air Force’s planned procurement of the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail are raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill.

South Korea has pushed the timeline of its latest AEW competition to the right after only one bidder submitted documents that met DAPA's requirements.

Boeing has told the U.S. Air Force that nonrecurring engineering costs on the E-7A Wedgetail would be double what the service expected.

NATO is looking to adopt near-term, cheaper options to protect against one-way attack drones.

With USAF and NATO orders on the books, Boeing and Northrop Grumman seek additional customers.

Large spans of water and a lack of strategic depth in some countries make airborne early warning assets a valuable commodity for air forces in the region.

Rearmament in Europe is focused on strengthening combat and support aircraft capacity and ground-based air defenses.

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The ramp up is taking place at Northrop’s Linthicum, Maryland, facility.

It increasingly seems that the only replacement for the Boeing E-3 Sentry is another Boeing aircraft.

The decision to select the E-7 has been made by a consortium of nations including Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and the U.S.

The Royal Australian Air Force has deployed one of its Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW aircraft to Europe as part of its military assistance to Ukraine.

The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail buy is described as “extremely poor value for money,” with the UK paying £1.89 billion for three, rather than £2.15 billion for five.

Fifteen years after a B-52 standoff jammers idea was shelved, the venerable bomber will audition for a role as a primary airborne electronic attack platform.