The Defense Department on March 19 successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body, which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. Image: Army
Peraton has won a U.S. Army Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems, or HyTEMPS, contract, valued at up to $44 million over 2 years.
Under the contract, Peraton will provide comprehensive mission support for interservice flight test missions. The company will also develop hardware and software solutions associated with the development, maintenance and sustainment, and operations of mission and test systems.