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The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Forward Defense program have launched the Hypersonic Capabilities Task Force to benchmark current US efforts to develop offensive hypersonic weapons and defensive counter-hypersonic capabilities. The task force, which convenes stakeholders across the public and private sectors, aims to map where the United States is behind on hypersonic-capability developments, identify where the United States could address key deterrence shortfalls, and recommend solutions to obstacles standing in the way of a more robust national approach to hypersonic capabilities.
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Michael E. White
Former Principal Director for Hypersonics in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Modernization)
US Department of Defense
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Stephen Rodriguez
Senior Advisor
Forward Defense, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
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Forward Defense, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, generates ideas and connects stakeholders in the defense ecosystem to promote an enduring military advantage for the United States, its allies, and partners. Our work identifies the defense strategies, capabilities, and resources the United States needs to deter and, if necessary, prevail in future conflict.