Hypersonics at scale: What it takes in terms of tech, manufacturing, and talent
Providing air-breathing and boost-glide hypersonics propulsion requires a holistic approach to address each system’s unique needs for speed.
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Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested
You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
DARPA Hypersonic Cruise Missile Prototype Flies At Last
The goals of the test were "vehicle integration and release sequence, safe separation from the launch aircraft, booster ignition and boost, booster separation and engine ignition, and cruise," DARPA said today, adding that the "primary test objectives were met."
As Air Force Signals Hypersonic Doubts, Key Senators Want To Go Faster
"I'm not satisfied with the pace," Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. "We're making some progress on the technology; I would like to see it be better."
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Hypersonics: Developing And Defending Against Missiles Far Faster Than Sound
Raytheon Technologies is using our broad capabilities to create breakthrough advantages.
Joint US-Australian Hypersonic Cruise Missile Moves Ahead
SCIFiRE is aimed at maturing an air-breathing hypersonic conventional cruise missile launched from either a fighter or a bomber.
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
DoD Needs To Sharpen Hypersonics Oversight: GAO
GAO notes that efforts to defend against Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles are much less mature than offensive efforts, with much less funding. Only 12 of 70 projects tracked by GAO related to defenses; DoD requested $207 million in 2021 for hypersonic defense, up from $157 million in 2020.
Ray Wants ARRW ‘Soonest’ For B-52, B-1
Combatant Commanders for European Command and Indo-Pacific Command see bombers with hypersonic capabilities as "incredibly, incredibly valuable," says Gen. Timothy Ray.
ARRW To Mayhem To The Future Of Hypersonic Operations
"How are we going to employ hypersonic weapons, what do they bring to the battlefield?," asks Maj. Gen. Mark Weatherington, commander of the 8th Air Force and the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center.
Hypersonics: DoD Wants ‘Hundreds of Weapons’ ASAP
“We want to deliver hypersonics at scale,” said R&D director Mark Lewis, from air-breathing cruise missiles to rocket-boosted gliders that fly through space.
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Powering the future: Securing America with domestically made microelectronics
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
EXCLUSIVE DoD Seeks $2.9B For Hypersonics In 2021
While Army and Navy spending nearly double, Air Force and independent agency spending drops almost 40 percent.
Hypersonic Missiles: Plethora Of Boost-Glide & Cruise
"At this point we don't want to see an either/or -- we actually want to see both technologies pursued," Lewis said of DoD's pursuit of hypersonic boost-glide and cruise missile efforts.
DoD Boosts Hypersonics 136 % In 2019: DARPA
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will ramp up research on hypersonic weapons with a stunning 136 percent increase in the 2019 budget request. Here’s the breakdown of the $257 million: DARPA wanted more money, director Steven Walker said bluntly, particularly to build up an R&D infrastructure currently half the size of China’s. But, he said, this budget […]
3D Printing Key To Hypersonic Weapons: Raytheon
UPDATED with independent analysis from ICFI ARLINGTON: The race is on to build hypersonic weapons, missiles that blow through a target’s defenses at more than five times the speed of sound. Or should that be “the race to grow hypersonic weapons”? It turns out an unrelated cutting-edge technology, 3D printing, may be the key to making hypersonics work. […]