United States, Aug. 11 -- Lockheed Martin has announced a multimillion-dollar investment to develop a Modular Payload Delivery System (MPDS). This investment transforms proven hypersonic missile body technologies into a flexible weapons family of systems capable of supporting both offensive and defensive missions. Within today's threat environment, speed to capability is the most valuable attribute to enabling the Department of War's Arsenal of Freedom and delivering on munitions acceleration. That speed is critical to scaling hypersonics and transitioning new alternative payloads into warfighter capability.MPDS re-architects key technologies within a modular framework, allowing the Department of War (DOW) and industry to integrate diverse ...