Nuclear Modernization

While the U.S. Air Force says it is restructuring the LGM-35A Sentinel next generation ICBM program and taking back the 2020 engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) decision, Senate appropriators are […]

Modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons and delivery systems is moving too slowly and the Pentagon has heard about it, Nebraska’s senior U.S. senator said here Tuesday at a think tank. […]

The House passed on a voice vote this week an amendment by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to H.R. 8997 to protect the construction of the High Explosive Synthesis, Formulation, and […]

The United States should get ready to again test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site if former President Trump wins reelection in November, according to conservative policy document […]

Work on the U.S. Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC] is to go forward, as the service and DoD acquisition chief William LaPlante consider how to […]

Integrating “only” government-wide practices will not help keep nuclear weapons infrastructure projects on time and on budget, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said in a letter published […]

While the Pentagon on July 8 announced a further cost overrun and development delay for the U.S. Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC], the Senate Armed […]

The Air Force’s next-generation ICBM will continue but will be restructured amid further cost increases and schedule delays and the decision in 2020 to initiate the engineering and manufacturing development […]

On June 24, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. John Newberry, the head of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M., dismissed Air Force Col. Charles Clegg, the […]

Over the next three years, the U.S. Air Force plans to recompete some software application contracts for U.S. Strategic Command’s (STRATCOM) future Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES). The […]