The test campaign, conducted by the Leidos team, demonstrated the use of innovative hypersonic solutions that can be recovered and reused. This achievement supports the Department of Defense’s objective to increase testing efficiency and reduce development timelines.
“Being able to complete these large-scale launches shows how our team is helping the customer move faster by using commercial capabilities,” said Mike Maughan, Aerospace Systems Lead for Leidos. “We want to be consistently and rapidly testing these systems, and our teams have really dedicated themselves to mission efficiency.”
TRMC Director George Rumford underscored the importance of the test’s demonstration of reusability, which involved a hypersonic test vehicle that had previously flown in a test late last year. “The reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,” Rumford stated. “Lessons learned from this test campaign will help us reduce vehicle turnaround time from months down to weeks.”
The MACH-TB contract was awarded to Leidos by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems Other Transaction Authority vehicle. The contract was awarded on behalf of the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center.
Source: Leidos (press release).
