Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $13 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the base period of the DARPA Glide Breaker program, an experimental effort to develop interceptors to take out highly advanced and highly maneuverable hypersonic missiles.
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| The Glide Breaker program began in 2018 to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable defense against hypersonic systems (Picture source: DARPA) |
