Modern warfare consumes munitions at a pace that has left the Western defense industrial base struggling to keep up. At the center of this challenge is a critical production bottleneck: the slow, inflexible, and costly manufacturing of traditional, single-use solid rocket motors (SRMs).
RTX Corp. (NYSE: RTX), through its Raytheon division, now looks poised to end this structural deficit. Following a Phase 2 contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), RTX is pioneering a new era of adaptable, composable rocket motors.
