“What we have not done is we have never chosen in the past to weaponize [hypersonics]," Pentagon research chief Michael Griffin says. "Now others are doing so."

The U.S. Marine Corps has taken delivery of the Pentagon’s first-ever gallium nitride radar, known as the TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), one month ahead of schedule.

General Atomics has completed its fourth wind tunnel test in its pursuit of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray unmanned refueling tanker competition.