The awards come nearly seven months after the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) operational prototyping program.

The South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration says its KF-21 flight-test program has entered the weapon-release phase,

The industry team will build and test an airbreathing propulsion subsystem for the proposed DeepStrike-Extended Range concept.

The work eventually could lead to the development of a highly modular electronic attack pod for either escort or standoff jamming operations.

The Army has a requirement for a new missile with a range over 1,000 km. that can still be fired from existing mobile launchers.

The test on March 13 of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) “met several objectives,” but not all.

The agency’s fiscal 2024 budget request includes funding for 27 Raytheon SM-3 Block 1B missiles, but then production will stop as upgrades continue. 

The budget documents offer the first glimpse of the procurement profile for the boost-glide missile that is common with the Army's Long Range Hypersonic Weapon.