X Bow Systems News Today

Hypersonic technology development has continued in the background of the defence industrial base for decades.

Hypersonic technology development has continued in the background of the defence industrial base for decades.

DoD officials and outside experts have been wringing their hands for the past year over the state of the US supply chain for solid rocket motor technology, as stocks of munitions and missile systems reliant on SRMs — such as the Army's Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and Stinger missiles — have been depleted by sales to Kiev.

FinSMEs is the financial news site dedicated to covering venture capital, private equity, and merger and acquisition deals in real time!

In an Oct. 24 letter, drafted on behalf of 63 companies, the Silicon Valley Defense Group calls on lawmakers to fully fund the provision.

The New Mexico-based start up will have its first production line up and running in a few months.

An in-house source of solid-fuel engines might help boost Ukraine’s supply of the punishing artillery system.

"This is a broad and in a way campaign-like approach to strengthening our own supply chain and enabling multiple sources, really for even beyond our company for our industry, which I think is important," Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said of his firm's endeavor to field a new solid rocket motor supplier.

X-Bow Systems has secured a $64 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply large solid rocket motors to the U.S. Navy and Army. The SRMs will boost the propulsion of the Navy's hypersonic All Up Round system, which is a component of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army's Long Range Hypersonic weapon systems.

Albuquerque-based startup X-Bow Systems won a $64 million defense contract that could set the company up as a long-term supplier of solid-state rocket motors for advanced weapons systems.