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US Spending $15 Billion On Hypersonic Weapons Over 10 Years, GAO Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021

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US Spending $15 Billion On Hypersonic Weapons Over 10 Years, GAO Says

An artist's rendering of the hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) (DARPA Photo)

The U.S. government is spending $15 billion on hypersonic weapons spread out over 70 separate efforts across three departments and agencies in the areas of offensive weapons, new technologies and defensive capabilities, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a report this week. The Department of Defense accounts for nearly all of the spending, with NASA just two percent and the Department of Energy doing work in support of DoD, GAO says in Hypersonic Weapons, DoD Should Clarify Roles and…

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