Teal Group's most recent UAS sector study, World Civil Unmanned Aerial Systems Market Profile & Forecast 2017, reports on numerous key findings, including: 

• In terms of aerospace, the market for civil UAS promises to be one of the most dynamic growth sectors for the next decade, expanding from a $2.8 billion market in 2017 to more than quadruple to $11.8 billion by 2026. Over the next ten years the market totals almost $74 billion.
  
  
• Although consumer systems represent about half of the overall market through the decade, the fastest growth comes from commercial systems, which surpass consumer systems in 2024 and continue to widen the lead throughout the rest of the forecast period.

The joint Australian/U.S. Nulka (an aboriginal word meaning “be quick!”) active missile decoy has been produced for most major U.S. Navy warships, integrated into the AN/SLQ-32(V) electronic warfare system. The first installation began in 1994. It has now also been integrated into the SSDS (Ship Self Defense System). Nulka has been installed on the CG-47, DDG-51, FFG-7, LSD-41, and LSD-49 classes, with installation on nine CVNs beginning in FY14. Canada and Australia also operate Nulka. More than 1,000 Nulka decoy payloads have been delivered to the US and Australian Navies.

More than 10,000 AN/APR-39s have been produced over the past 50 years, but production slowed with planned new generations of integrated EW suites for helicopters – last century – including the US Army’s SIRFC and ATIRCM.

The deployment of AH-64A Apaches to Kosovo as early as 1999 showed that Apache pilots “had lost confidence” in the APR-39. The Apaches never went into battle, in large part due to the perceived inadequacy of the ECM suite. Again in 2001 in Afghanistan, Army pilots expressed little faith in the APR-39. The Army anxiously awaited the next generation of helicopter EW.

The first launch of a Falcon Heavy should take place this year. That’s a delay of about three years, as the test flight from Vandenberg AFB had originally been scheduled for 2013. A negligible delay, though, particularly for a vehicle of this size, power, and complexity—not to mention revolutionary low-cost structure. If it succeeds, Falcon Heavy will become the most powerful rocket in the world, with more than twice the payload lift capacity of an Ariane 5ES, a Delta IV-Heavy, a Proton M, or even the now-retired Space Shuttle. Ac-cording to SpaceX marketing literature, only the Apollo Saturn V rocket of the late-1960s and early-1970s has had a greater ability to deliver space payloads.