Category: hypersonic defense

Pentagon Officials Say Integrating New Weapons Systems Can Cause Battlefield Disruption

President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $145 billion for research and development into emerging technologies to create new weapons systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI), hypersonic munitions, and electromagnetic swarms. The Department of Defense (DOD) and its subsidiary military branch technology laboratories, working in tandem universities and high-tech contractors…


The Disruptive Military Technologies That the Pentagon Is Spending Nearly $150 Billion On

President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $145 billion for research and development into emerging technologies to create new weapons systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI), hypersonic munitions, and electromagnetic swarms. The Department of Defense (DOD) and its subsidiary military branch technology laboratories, working in tandem with universities and high-tech…


Pentagon Picks Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon to Develop Hypersonic Defense

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon on Friday said it selected Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon to research and develop a missile system that would be able to defend the United States against a hypersonic weapons attack. The three companies were awarded separate contracts totaling about $60 million to develop a glide phase interceptor that would be guided…