{"id":244172,"date":"2026-09-18T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/gcap-electronics-evolution-receives-contract-to-deliver-sensing-and-communications-capability-to-next-generation-fighter-aircraft"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:17:11","slug":"gcap-electronics-evolution-receives-contract-to-deliver-sensing-and-communications-capability-to-next-generation-fighter-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/gcap-electronics-evolution-receives-contract-to-deliver-sensing-and-communications-capability-to-next-generation-fighter-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"GCAP Electronics Evolution Receives Contract to Deliver Sensing and Communications Capability to Next-generation Fighter Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gcap-electronics-evolution-receives-contract-to-deliver-sensing-and-communications-capability-to-next-generation-fighter-aircraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a strategic enabling partner to Edgewing, the consortium will deliver information superiority for the future complex and contested airspace.<\/p>\n<p>A new contract has been awarded to the companies of the GCAP Electronics Evolution (G2E) consortium \u2013 the international collaboration between the national defence electronics champions for Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom \u2013 to further develop the integrated sensing and communications for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).<\/p>\n<p>The 18-month contract was awarded by Edgewing \u2013 the joint venture established by Leonardo S.p. A., Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co. Ltd. (JAIEC) and BAE Systems plc that is responsible for the design and development of the sixth-generation GCAP fighter aircraft. It follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryleak.com\/2022\/01\/24\/hal-signs-contract-for-export-of-advanced-light-helicopter-mk-iii-to-mauritius\/\" rel=\"dofollow\" >signing of a contract<\/a> between Edgewing and the GCAP Agency, the government entity that manages GCAP on behalf of the three nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a strategic enabling partner to Edgewing, the consortium will deliver information superiority for the future complex and contested airspace. A new contract has been awarded to the companies of the GCAP Electronics Evolution (G2E) consortium \u2013 the international collaboration between the national defence electronics champions for Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom \u2013 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}