The US has spent $5bn on electronic warfare in 2024 alone

Alex Blair

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The US Air Force has been a leading adopter of electronic warfare technology including BAE Systems’ Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS). Credit: Toshifumi Kitamura / Getty.

The US is the world’s largest investor and developer of electronic warfare, spending an estimated $5bn on the signal technology in 2024 so far alone, according to a new report.

GlobalData’s Electronic Warfare report details that, between 2021 and 2023, the US military accounted for the largest share of electronic warfare spending by a significant margin – 45% of global expenditure compared to Russia’s 14% and China’s 13%.

Washington’s stranglehold on the electronic warfare market looks set to be challenged, however.

The report predicts that Russia, China and India’s share of the electronic warfare market will only increase over the next decade.