Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng notes that the effectiveness of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System has been demonstrated in Ukraine.
A pre-solicitation notice is the next step on a path to selecting a design to launch an engineering and manufacturing development program within two years.
The follow-on award comes seven months after the same team completed the last of three successful tests for the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program.
The initiative now requires specific technology that excludes certain hardware that is important to some NATO members that have not signed up for it yet.