Navy plunks down $846M to begin building hypersonic booster

By Jason Sherman / February 27, 2019 at 2:29 PM
The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential $846 million contract to begin building a new booster for a submarine-launched, maneuvering hypersonic payload, marking a significant development in the Pentagon's plans to ready a new class of ultra-fast conventional weapons to strike high priority, fleeting targets. On Feb. 26, the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs office awarded Lockheed Martin a fourth contract in the last nine months for work on a new booster, pushing spending to date to $925 million for...

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