The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board is preparing to recommend a "next step" toward developing a hypersonic weapon capability, a SAB official said this week. The board met in Washington June 24 to discuss study options for fiscal year 2015, which one source said might include MQ-9 survivability and deterring conflict in space, and to discuss the preliminary findings and recommendations of three fiscal year 2014 studies: nuclear command, control and communications (NC3), defense of forward-operating bases, and the technology...