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Peraton Announces $44 Million Deal To Support Hypersonic Weapon Testing

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, March 15th, 2021

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Peraton Announces $44 Million Deal To Support Hypersonic Weapon Testing

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility during a Defense Department flight experiment, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020.

Peraton said Monday the company has received a two-year, $44 million deal to support interservice hypersonic weapon flight tests. Under the deal, awarded by the Army in late December, Peraton will build off previous work supporting hypersonic testing by developing new hardware and software capabilities for “development, maintenance and sustainment, and operations of mission and test systems.” "Hypersonic vehicle testing is an extraordinarily complex process. In addition to the inherent challenges of studying an object traveling at speeds above Mach 5…

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