The Defense Department today disclosed a new hypersonic research project with Australia called the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), an endeavor that aims to feed new technology into the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept. SCIFiRE appears to be the second of two new hypersonic research projects the Defense Department foreshadowed executing in fiscal year 2020 as part of its Rapid Prototyping Project. In April, DOD announced the first such effort -- a collaborative research...
