Airborne Battle Management continues to evolve as the rapidly growing military aerospace sector increases in importance. Constricted budgets have managed to enhance the appeal of smaller and cheaper AEW systems, such as the Embraer 145 AEW, IAI/Elta G.550 CAEW and Saab 2000 AEW&C .

Amongst the mid-range AEW & BM solutions, the Boeing 737 AEW&C variant, has been selected for the Australian, Turkish and South Korean requirements, with several other countries showing interest. Meanwhile, for the larger systems, the Boeing E-3 Sentry and E-2D Hawkeye are being developed to give them advanced battle management capabilities.