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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An engineer works on a hypersonic vehicle.

Test Model

An engineer prepares to test a model of a hypersonic vehicle during a wind tunnel test at NASA's Langley Research Center, Md., Dec. 10, 2009.

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