The Air Force wants to revive its shelved AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon , or ARRW, hypersonic program — and perhaps move it into the procurement phase.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin told lawmakers in a hearing last week that the service wants to include funding for both ARRW and the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM, in the fiscal 2026 budget proposal.

“We are looking, and have in the budget submission — assuming it’s what we had put forward — two different [hypersonic] programs,” Allvin told the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday. “One is a larger form factor that is more strategic long-range that we have already tested several times. It’s called ARRW, and the other one is HACM.”

Hypersonic weapons are capable of traveling at more than five

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