Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the company is focused on the development of hypersonics and counter-hypersonics technologies and sees a larger m... Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne won a potential 3.5-year, $19M contract to provide risk reduction services for the Missile Defense Agency’s axial upper stage components. Read more
Boeing is planning to introduce an F-15 fighter aircraft variant that will potentially be able to carry hypersonic weapons, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. Read more
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have agreed to extend joint technology integration activities to support the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Hypersonic Air-b... Read more
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force demonstrated an air-launched rapid response weapon on a military bomber aircraft during a captive carry test held last week at Edwards AF Base in Calif... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for a contractor that can integrate ground-launched hypersonic weapon systems as part of DARPA and the U.S. Army’s Operational Fires... Read more
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon booked contracts worth more than $3B combined in recent months to develop new hypersonics technology for the Department of Defense, Aviation International News r... Read more
Wes Kremer, who took over as president of Raytheon’s missile systems business on March 30, told the Arizona Daily Star in an interview published Sunday that a lot of the company’s weapons de... Read more
Peraton will provide range instrumentation systems to support test and evaluation operations of the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division under a potential five-year, $33... Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground Thursday on its engineering, manufacturing and development site in Camden, Ark., for solid rocket motors. Read more
Henry “Trey” Obering, an executive vice president and directed energy lead at Booz Allen Hamilton, has outlined several measures the Department of Defense should do to expedite the developme... Read more
Northrop Grumman has developed a four-layered approach on establishing the company’s edge in the hypersonics market, Defense News reported Wednesday. Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the research areas where the agency wants to partner with small businesses in 2019 under the Small Business Innovation Research an... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun to solicit research proposals on high-performance leading edges for hypersonic air systems under a new initiative. Read more
General Atomics to Help Army Test Hypersonic Tech
General Atomics has secured a $41.8M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to help the U.S. Army demonstrate a hypersonic weapon technology. Read more