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Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley WASHINGTON: In what must have been music to Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper’s ears, Defense Secretary Mark Esper today sang the praises of the service’s Advanced Battle Management Network (ABMS) as critical to future combat operations against Russia and China. “This …

A B-52 bomber carrying the ARRW. AFA 2020: Lockheed Martin’s air-launched hypersonic missile will complete its critical design review (CDR) today, as the company and the Air Force press ahead on development, John Varley, vice president for hypersonic weapons at Lockheed Martin, says. The company’s first contract for the Air Force’s AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response …