Command-and-control systems market forecast points to doubling by 2035, with Lockheed Martin among the profiled defense primes

A market outlook highlighted in a Yahoo Finance report forecasts strong growth for command and control systems, projecting the category will expand from $36.7 billion in 2025 to $71 billion by 2035. The article says the forecast is based on a 170-page report that profiles major defense and aerospace players, including Lockheed Martin.

The report’s framing ties demand to how militaries are trying to operate across domains such as land, sea, air, space and cyber. In that view, “multi-domain warfare” and the move toward more connected networks are expected to increase the amount of software, integration work and networked capabilities needed to coordinate forces.

The Yahoo Finance write-up also links the forecast to artificial intelligence integration. It suggests AI is becoming a more central component of how command networks interpret information and support decision-making, a development that could raise spending beyond traditional communications and into analytics, automation and related data-processing infrastructure.

Even as the outlook points to growth drivers, the report flags headwinds. The article says cybersecurity threats and systems integration costs are among the pressures weighing on the market. That matters for the command-and-control sector because it sits at the intersection of sensitive communications, fast-moving operational requirements and the need to keep heterogeneous platforms and software components working together.

Within the set of companies profiled, Lockheed Martin is named alongside peers such as Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems, as well as Airbus and additional companies. The reporting does not provide granular, company-by-company revenue implications in the excerpted description, but the inclusion of Lockheed Martin indicates the report’s authors view the firm as a relevant participant in the broader command-and-control value chain.

For context, command and control systems are the technologies that help military organizations plan, coordinate and execute operations, typically by connecting sensors, communications links and decision-support tools into an operational picture. As defense forces incorporate more sensors and data sources, the systems tend to become more software intensive and more dependent on networking, which can amplify both the addressable market and the cost of integration and security hardening.

The report’s numbers, as described by Yahoo Finance, suggest the industry sees a path from 2025 to 2035 where capability upgrades and new network architectures could roughly scale the market size by nearly a factor of two. However, the article’s framing also implies that the pace and profitability of that growth could be affected by how quickly buyers can absorb modernization work without running into cybersecurity constraints or integration complexity.

What remains unclear from the information presented in the Yahoo Finance post is the level of detail behind the forecast methodology. The excerpted description does not break out assumptions about budgets, program award timing, government procurement schedules, or how much of the market is tied to new builds versus upgrades, nor does it specify which sub-segments (such as communications, software, cybersecurity tooling, or data fusion) drive the increase. As a result, readers may want to treat the projections as directional until the underlying report parameters are reviewed.