Italy’s new prime minister has hired the chief technology and innovation officer at Italian defense firm Leonardo to help rebuild the country’s economy.
Radar engineers on the sixth-generation Tempest fighter program say they will break data-processing records by way of miniaturization and going digital.
Italy is close to opening a new pilot finishing school in Sardinia where expanded air space will allow it to double its current intake, with a majority of students coming from overseas militaries.
The objective is to reinforce Italy’s signals-intelligence capability as the Mediterranean becomes a flashpoint for regional tensions, with neighbors like Turkey and Egypt tussling over the future of lawless Libya.
Fresh from a burst of shipbuilding spurred by the retirement of old vessels, the Italian Navy is now back at the drawing board to design what it considers the cornerstone of its fleet — new destroyers.