{"id":37001,"date":"2019-08-07T22:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/07\/final-hypersonic-missile-contract-awards-imminent-as-army-preps-to-shoot-one-in-fy21\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:54:50","slug":"final-hypersonic-missile-contract-awards-imminent-as-army-preps-to-shoot-one-in-fy21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2019\/08\/07\/final-hypersonic-missile-contract-awards-imminent-as-army-preps-to-shoot-one-in-fy21\/","title":{"rendered":"Final hypersonic missile contract awards imminent as US Army preps to shoot one in FY21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The U.S. Army is just weeks away from awarding the final contracts related to the development of its mobile, ground-launched hypersonic missile<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army will award a contract within the next three weeks to a company to develop a launching system for the hypersonic missile<\/a> in co-development across the services, Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood, the service\u2019s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office<\/a> director, said Aug. 7 at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RCCTO\u2019s job is to serve as a bridge between the science and technology community and the program executive offices, helping bring technology out of development and into soldiers\u2019 hands, first on a small scale and then a larger scale when passed off to program offices. The office is primarily focused on hypersonics and directed energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the missile is under joint development, the Army needs a special launcher to make the missile road-mobile. The contract will encompass the design and integration of a vertical launcher onto a trailer, Thurgood said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t