Senate authorizers proposed funding in their mark of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill to support key hypersonics testing facilities, pointing to a larger effort to maintain critical test infrastructure and accelerate hypersonic weapons development. In the report, the Senate Armed Services Committee noted the president's FY-17 request to boost funding for hypersonics, a core element of the defense department's third offset strategy designed to assert American military superiority. The Air Force returned to its hypersonic weapons effort with...
