Ursa Major CEO Urges New Munitions Model as Legacy Air Defense Base Shows 1 Era Gap
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Updated · Breaking Defense · Jun 24
Ursa Major CEO Urges New Munitions Model as Legacy Air Defense Base Shows 1 Era Gap
1 articles · Updated · Breaking Defense · Jun 24
Summary
Chris Spagnoletti said the U.S. air-and-missile-defense industrial base is failing to match current threats because it was built for an earlier era.
Ursa Major’s CEO pointed to new approaches for designing, building and fielding munitions and hypersonic systems faster to close those gaps.
The warning underscores pressure on defense manufacturers to modernize production capacity as real-time threat changes expose weaknesses in existing supply and deployment models.