hypersonics

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded both Northrop Grumman [NOC] and RTX [RTX] another $54 million to fund further concept refinement for their hypersonic defense Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) concepts. […]

A U.S. Army official this week outlined where the service sees specific opportunities to lower costs for parts of hypersonic missiles and highlightedlimitations in the current supply chain. Dynetics [LDOS] […]

L3 Harris Technologies [LHX] said its Aerojet Rocketdyne subsidiary was chosen by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide the propulsion system for the anti-ship Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive Anti-Surface weapon (HALO). The […]

Boeing [BA] won a $70.5 million contract to develop and test technologies for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency’s (DARPA) counter-hypersonic missile interceptor program, Glide Breaker. […]

The Navy awarded HII [HII] a $155 million modification to execute the modernization of the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) that will install hypersonic missiles. The work is expected to be finished […]

A top Missile Defense Agency official recently said its work on a new hypersonic missile defense effort is “throttled” due to new technology that has to be matured, but it […]

A recent Navy notice said the service intends to conduct a competition for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase for an aircraft carrier-based hypersonic weapon program later this year […]

General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD] on May 23 won a $1.1 billion contract modification to procure long-lead time material for two Virginia-class attack submarines after a delay due to an […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] additional firm-fixed-price modifications to extend their work refining concepts for hypersonic missile defense, called the […]

The Missile Defense Agency’s acquisition plan for the newest interceptors to defend the U.S. from ballistic missiles is flexible enough to potentially use two contractors to build them faster while  […]