The current domestic solid-rocket motor industrial base manufacturing capacity is insufficient to support U.S. military plans to field long-range hypersonic strike weapons in the middle of this decade, prompting the Pentagon to launch a new market research effort into the possibility of establishing an additional source. On Oct. 20, the Army, on behalf of the Defense Department, issued a request for information that could set the stage for the U.S. government to set up a new production line. “The United...
