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Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said MDA has decided to delay the defensive hypersonic missile design effort to focus on near-term options, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Palantir will support a U.S. Army project to integrate large volumes of data from disparate systems under a potential four-year, $110M other transaction agreement, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Four companies have won separate contracts from the Missile Defense Agency to come up with payload design prototypes for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Program. The Department of Defense said Tuesday Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) each received a $20M firm-fixed-price contract, which includes risk-reduction demonstration for signal-chain processing.

A team led by Dynetics’ technical solutions business will develop prototypes of the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body system under a potential three-year, $351.6M other transaction agreement with the U.S. Army.

A team led by Dynetics’ technical solutions business will develop prototypes of the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body system under a potential three-year, $351.6M other transaction agreement with the U.S. Army.

SpaceX conducted a free flight of its Starhopper prototype launch vehicle following a brief attempt a day earlier at the company’s south Texas-based facility, SpaceNews reported Friday.

Marillyn Hewson, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the estimated value of the company’s hypersonic contracts now stands at over $3.5B, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

A team composed of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) and Ball Aerospace has received a $7.2M contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to build a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission satellite antenna prototype.

Torch Technologies has received a potential five-year, $221.3 million contract to provide modernization and sustainment services to the U.S. Army‘s system simulation and development directorate. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will help the directorate update a suite of missile modeling, hardware-in-the-loop and prototyping platforms. Work will run through May …