The Defense Department is ratcheting up planned funding for the Conventional Prompt Strike program and plans to hand responsibility for the project -- the U.S. military's marquee effort to develop an intermediate-range, non-nuclear hypersonic weapon -- to the Navy beginning in fiscal year 2020. The Pentagon has allocated $1.9 billion for CPS development in its new five-year plan beginning in FY-19, nearly doubling the total amount allocated for the program in the FY-18 future years defense plan, according to DOD...
