By Mike Stone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have been selected to research and develop a missile system for the Pentagon that would be able to defend against a hypersonic weapons attack, according to a Pentagon document.
The three companies have won separate contracts totaling about $60 million to develop a glide phase interceptor that would be guided by a constellation of satellites and sensors to intercept a hypersonic missile inside Earth’s atmosphere as it glides towards its target, the document said.
(Reporting by Mike Stone, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
