In this episode of the Space and Defense Innovation Launchpad Podcast, host Brian Fox moderates a panel with John Dr. John Rhoads (Lockheed Martin Skunk Works), Dr. John Schmisseur (UTSI), and Dr. Jeff Komives (MTSI) on accelerating hypersonic capabilities for U.S. defense. They explore near-term wins and deeper challenges across affordability, scalable manufacturing, testing infrastructure, and supply chains, while emphasizing tight collaboration between government, industry, and academia and treating hypersonics as an attribute to be integrated broadly across future systems.