
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…