Navy turns to Lockheed Martin for hypersonic flight test support through 2023

By Jason Sherman / November 26, 2018 at 1:08 PM
The Navy is turning to its trusted supplier for submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles -- Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, CA, business unit -- to design, develop, build and integrate large rocket motors and missile bodies to support test flights of the service's hypersonic boost-glide vehicle program. On Nov. 21, the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) office announced plans to negotiate a sole-source contract with Lockheed Martin for a planned five-year program to support the Navy's Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike flight test...

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