Modly says industrial base for hypersonics not there yet for transition to production

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The Navy needs to send clear signals to the hypersonics industrial base in anticipation of the coming transition from developing prototypes to producing the weapon systems at scale, according to the service's acting chief civilian. "The shift of going from [research and development] to test platforms and then going into full production ... that's a pretty major transition that we need to be thinking about because the industrial capacity is not really there right now to be able to develop that," acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told Inside Defense in a Jan. 17 phone interview.