Roper putting final touches on revamp to speed Air Force hypersonic weapons development

By Rachel Cohen / April 27, 2018 at 4:44 PM
The Air Force will make an announcement in the coming weeks on programmatic changes to accelerate hypersonic weapons development, the service's assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics told reporters this week. "One of the first things that I did coming in, was I wanted to focus on something that had bothered me and that was the slowness of moving to operationalizing hypersonics," Will Roper said at an April 27 roundtable. "I pulled in all the hypersonics programs that we're...

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