European missile manufacturer MBDA has taken a stake in French software analysis company Numalis in a bid to strengthen the artificial-intelligence capabilities of future weapons.

Australia’s request to buy the missiles implies it has chosen the AGM-158C for project Air 3023 Phase 1.

A Lockheed Martin program has become the first casualty in the U.S. Defense Department’s race to deploy a diverse portfolio of hypersonic missiles as soon as possible.

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a rocket motor and scramjet propulsion company, will deliver “enabling technologies” for a Northrop Grumman-designed hypersonic interceptor missile in development by DARPA, the company announced Feb. 10.

The Pentagon will launch a Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program and build out its command-and-control system as part of a budget request that seeks $20.3 billion for “Missile Defeat and Defense activities.”

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.

The U.S. Defense Department plans to increase spending on hypersonic offensive and defensive capabilities in fiscal 2021.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has acquired “Fire Weaver,” a networked sensor-to-shooter system. The system is expected to serve the Israel…