By Michael Sirak Fielding game-changing weapons, such as hypersonic missiles and systems based on laser and microwave beams, demands a new cadre of scientists and engineers as well as steady funding, according to a senior Air Force munitions developer. "There has to be funding to bring them along, to mature them, to transition them to systems," Judy Stokley, deputy program executive officer for Weapons, told Defense Daily during an interview last month at the 33rd Air Armament Symposium in Ft.…
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