
Air Force contractor Boeing [BA] is clear to start production on crucial hardware for the B61-12 next-generation nuclear gravity bomb, which is scheduled to be built in 2020, the service said recently.Boeing’s tail-kit cleared Milestone C — which in Pentagon program management precedes a project’s construction phase — in late October, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at the Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico wrote in a press release Friday. The service has already tested the design in…