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Report: Aerojet Rocketdyne Works on Cruise Missile Propulsion Tech

Report: Aerojet Rocketdyne Works on Cruise Missile Propulsion Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Jeff Brody

Aerojet Rocketdyne is developing a propulsion technology as part of a cruise missile development partnership with Lockheed Martin, Military.com reported Monday.

The two companies partnered to build a missile system that will work to operate at a minimum speed of Mach 5 as the Department of Defense plans to invest in multiple hypersonic weapons programs.

Lockheed won a potential $928M contract from the U.S. Air Force in April to develop, integrate and test an aircraft-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon.

Aerojet Rocketdyne produced supersonic combustion ramjet for the X-51A WaveRider plane that was built in 2013 through a collaboration between Boeing and the U.S. Air Force.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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