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NSWC Crane Congratulates Winners of Hypersonic Horizons 2025, Fostering Future Innovators
April 20, 2026 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) proudly congratulates the 19 high school and undergraduate teams awarded a total of $44,000 in the third annual “Hypersonic Horizons 2025: The High Speed Video Challenge.” As the host of the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) Systems Engineering Field Activity, NSWC Crane is honored...

Indiana Research Consortium takes strategic first step to advance hypersonics innovation
August 8, 2025 — The Indiana Research Consortium (IRC) convened top researchers from Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame, and subject matter experts from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane, at the Emerging Manufacturing and Collaboration Center (EMC²) for an ideation session centered on hypersonics—an area of...

NSWC Crane Announces Winners of Hypersonic Horizons 2024: The High Speed Video Challenge, Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Leaders
June 6, 2025 — CRANE, Ind. – The Joint Hypersonics Transition Office, in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) is proud to announce the 14 winning teams of the second annual "Hypersonic Horizons: The High Speed Video Challenge," The competition awarded a total of $32,000 to high school and undergraduate students who demonstrated exceptional innovation and technical acumen in addressing hypersonic challenges...

NSWC Crane employee awarded for her work in Flight Test Engineering
December 18, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) employee Carla Jackson received the Kelly Johnson Award for her work in Flight Test Engineering. The Kelly Johnson Award is presented every year by the International Society of Flight Test Engineers, is awarded to an individual with outstanding achievement in flight test engineering, and is...

NSWC Crane and Joint Hypersonics Transition Office Announce Winners in $1M Hypersonics Challenge
November 20, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) have announced Specter Aerospace and Castelion Corporation as the winners of the Hypersonic Accelerated Manufactured Prototype Demonstration (Hyper-AMPD) Prize Challenge.Hyper-AMPD was a two-phase prize challenge sponsored by the Assistant...

NSWC Crane announces winners in student hypersonics video challenge
May 9, 2024 — Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO), in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), announced winners for Hypersonic Horizons: The High Speed Video Challenge.Hypersonic Horizons: The High Speed Video Challenge was open to high school students and college undergraduates. To compete, students created a...

Joint Hypersonics Transition Office announces winners in $500,000 prize challenge
April 12, 2024 — Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO), in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), has announced the winners to the Hyper-AMPD! prize challenge.49 white papers were submitted in Phase I and Aerojet Rocketdyne, Castelion Corporation, GoHypersonic Incorporated, Northrup Grumman, and Specter Aerospace were...

NSWC Crane to build new hypersonics-focused research and development capability
March 28, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new strategic and hypersonics research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) facility on Thursday, March 21. The Missile Technology Evaluation Facility (MTEF) provides a new capability for NSWC Crane to ensure reliable performance of strategic...

NSWC Dahlgren Thrusts Hypersonic Weapons Advancement into the Forefront
October 26, 2021 — Traveling from Los Angeles to New York by passenger jet takes just over five hours. Hypersonic flight at Mach 20 fewer than 10 minutes. High-speed feats such as this are not theoretical proposals. Indeed, NASA and the space programs of other countries attain those velocities with every spacecraft that achieves earth orbit. However, Russia is...

OSD Establishes Joint Hypersonics Transition Office Systems Engineering Field Activity at NSWC Crane
October 15, 2020 — CRANE, Ind. – The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has established its Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) Systems Engineering Field Activity at Naval Support Activity, Crane. The decision to partner with Crane was made to leverage the growing suite of government, industry, and academic capabilities associated with that organization...

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