Army creating new program of record for hypervelocity projectile

By Courtney McBride / June 5, 2017 at 1:45 PM
The Army seeks to launch a new program of record in fiscal year 2018 that would "leverage" efforts by the Defense Department's Strategic Capabilities Office to develop a hypervelocity projectile that can use the service's existing gun systems. Budget justification documents show the Army would spend $36 million in FY-18 to "support the initiation of contracts requirements package development, system evaluation, requirements/specification work, integration development and test plans for the Hypervelocity Projectile system." The service projects annual spending of $36...

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