Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said it is imperative for the U.S. and Canada to counter hypersonic weapons as Russia and
MoreThe Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories is working with industry partners to accelerate the development of the common hypersonic glide body for future deployment to the Department of Defense. A team
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Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the joint forces must strike a balance between ensuring preparedness for current and future fights,
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Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said MDA is considering a partnership with Japan to work on a program that seeks to develop an interceptor that can
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The Congressional Budget Office examined and compared the hypersonic weapons being developed by the Army, Air Force and the Navy with potential existing alternatives and found that the U.S. military must overcome
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An annual report of the Department of Defense’s office of the director of operational test and evaluation has recommended that DOD perform cyber survivability testing of all Digital Modernization Strategy enterprise information
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The U.S. Air Force has validated the loading and unloading procedures of its first air-launched hypersonic weapon with a B-52H Stratofortress bomber at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, paving the way
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Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the service needs to do six fundamental things to transform into the Army of 2030 and the first two are seeing and sensing more at every echelon
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Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, has released a 28-page document outlining ways to help the U.S. Navy build, train and equip its naval force, strengthen integrated deterrence and develop warfighting
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The U.S. Air Force has finished tests of the booster performance of a hypersonic weapon system that Lockheed Martin designed to help the service reach time-sensitive targets. USAF put the Air-Launched Rapid
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