Senate appropriators seek to direct nearly $4 billion in additional funding to key areas of weapon system innovation including hypersonics, artificial intelligence, cyber, space, microelectronics and directed energy. The area of hypersonics, which the Pentagon has identified as one of its top research and development priorities, would receive an additional $929 million, according to a summary of the fiscal year 2019 defense appropriations bill provided by the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee. One hypersonics prototype program for prompt global strike managed...
