The U.S. Air Force wants to issue a contract in 2026 for a next-generation re-entry vehicle for its Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile.

The $2.6 billion package includes $2.1 billion in new equipment and another $500 million in existing equipment.

The U.S. Navy's so-called "hypersonic" missile will actually fly at maximum speeds below Mach 5.

The acquisition plans, detailed April 3, are a component of the country’s €14.8 billion ($16.1 billion) increase in defense spending between 2022 and 2025.

Spending over a 4-year period between fiscal '24-'27 on development and procurement across all five hypersonic weapon programs will total nearly $11.9 billion.

When the U.S. Space Development Agency’s first ten satellites become operational, it will mark the start of a massive change in the Pentagon’s architecture.

Raytheon installed a software upgrade on the SM-6 Dual II since a May 2021 setback, and it worked.

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