U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

With no winner in its Launch Challenge, DARPA is now looking at the possibly of staging the demonstration of a flexible, responsive launch of a small satellite during a major military exercise.

The U.S. defense research agency awarded Northrop a $13 million, one-year contract under the Glide Breaker program.

The air vehicle was lost during the ground-recovery sequence, but Dynetics noted it has four test vehicles remaining.

Lockheed Martin has won a sixth prime contractor role in a U.S. hypersonic missile program.

A year of change is in store for the military organizations tasked with intercepting missiles launched from another continent. In the U.S., the $160