We report below on the growing speculation that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is headed out the door. Well, once again, the rumor mill may be premature. Rumsfeld told reporters Thursday afternoon that he has heard the same thing since shortly after he took office. He says, “I have no plans to retire.” That settles it, right
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.



