The Pentagon has established an Innovation Capability and Modernization team to spearhead an effort to forge a hypersonic industrial base -- directing government investments to prop up fledgling suppliers in an ambitious goal to eventually wring as much as 80% of the estimated production cost of long-range, ultra-fast, maneuvering strike systems. On July 28, the office of the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy published a notice asking industry for proposals to help develop strategies to manage risks...
