DOD Signs Contracts To Expand Hypersonic Industrial Base

Credit: Lockheed Martin. A second call for proposals will seek to draw complimentary technologies to a “modular payload capability” for a hypersonic vehicle testbed, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said on Jan. 23. 

Three companies—General Electric, Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies (C-CAT) and Northrop Grumman—are the first beneficiaries of a Pentagon push to expand the industrial base for high-temperature materials for hypersonic-speed missiles and vehicles. The three contracts come less than two months...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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