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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 w...

Share this article Share this article HERNDON, Va., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peraton has been awarded a U.S. Army contract for Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems (HyTEMPS), valued at up to $44 million over two years. This award builds upon Peraton's more than 10 years of experience supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center and its mission to develop hypersonic vehicle technologies and provide hypersonic weapon and vehicle flight testing capabilities. Under the contract, Peraton will be responsible for providing compreh...