
After canceling another hypersonic weapon test in late October, the Army’s top acquisition official has said it’s “very unlikely” the service will meet its goal to field the first operational system by the end of the year. “I can’t go into details, but it was before launch that the problem was detected. So that’s why the test didn’t happen,” Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told reporters on Tuesday. Ellen Lovett, an Army spokesperson,…