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New DoD Team Seeking Hypersonic Supply Chain Proposals To Help Cut Future Costs By Up To 80%

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New DoD Team Seeking Hypersonic Supply Chain Proposals To Help Cut Future Costs By Up To 80%
The Navy and Army executed the launch of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, part of the LRHW, in a flight experiment from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii in March, 2020 (U.S. Navy Photo)

A new team at the Pentagon is seeking proposals to help “address gaps in the technology and manufacturing supply chain” for hypersonic weapons, with the department aiming to find solutions that could help cut the estimated production cost of the future capabilities by 30 to 80 percent. A DoD notice published on July 28 details the new Innovation Capability and Modernization (ICAM) team’s interest in technologies and strategies that could advance production capacity for a range of critical hypersonic weapon…

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