Nuclear Modernization

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 […]

Contractor and federal managers from across the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex are using technology to help predict issues from workplace accidents to infrastructure failure, these people said at […]

Global spending on nuclear weapons increased by 13% in 2023, according to the latest annual report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons group, reaching $91.4 billion that year […]

The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) is recommending a $324 million cut to the U.S. Air Force’s research and development request of $3.7 billion for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel […]