The Pentagon's new five-year spending plan allocates "significant money” -- about $10 billion -- to accelerate procurement of offensive hypersonic weapons as part of an effort to not only field a new family of ultrafast maneuvering glide vehicles soon but to give U.S. commanders this next-generation strike capability "in numbers," according to a DOD official. Mike White, principal deputy for hypersonics in the office of the under secretary of defense for research and engineering, previewed the not-yet-public figures in the...
