Navy postpones new missile program industry day

The Navy has postponed its upcoming industry day for a new missile program due to the ongoing government shutdown.

The Naval Modular Missile industry day, originally set for Oct. 21-22, is now postponed to an unknown date.

“We recognize the importance of this event to our industry partners and apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause,” a government notice states.

Naval Sea Systems Command and the program executive office for integrated warfare systems “remain committed to providing industry with the opportunity to learn more about the NMM program, its acquisition strategy, and collaboration opportunities once the event is rescheduled,” the announcement adds.

According to the initial notice, NMM will include long-range hypersonic variant and scalable configurations, multiple weapons in a single launcher cell, and will be created through a collaborative approach with the U.S. Air Force to begin an open government-reference architecture.

The announcement today follows another earlier this week -- the postponement of an industry day for the development of a new Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile variant.