I FEEL THE NEED… USAF Announces Major New Hypersonic Weapon Contract.

The $928 million contract will cover the “design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of all the elements of a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon,” according to information released by the Air Force.

In a statement, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said the program has been dubbed the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon. It is “one of two hypersonic weapon prototyping efforts being pursued by the Air Force to accelerate hypersonics research and development,” she said. “The Air Force is using prototyping to explore the art-of-the-possible and to advance these technologies to a capability as quickly as possible.”

The second program is the Tactical Boost Glide program, which the Air Force is working on with DARPA. The service plans to have a prototype ready by 2023.

Faster, please.