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New Facility Accelerates System Integration For Us Hypersonic Programs
Lockheed Martin has opened a new Hypersonics System Integration Lab at its Huntsville, Alabama, campus, a 17,000-square-foot facility designed to accelerate system integration, simulation, and testing for US hypersonic weapon programs. The $17.1 million lab will help shorten development cycles for US Army requirements and strengthen Lockheed’s hypersonic engineering presence in Huntsville. The facility is part of Lockheed’s expanding hypersonics footprint in Alabama, which includes a production site in Courtland. The lab’s opening comes as the US continues to push toward fielding operational hypersonic weapons, with Lockheed Martin playing a key role in the development of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon and the Conventional Prompt Strike program, as reported by AeroTime.