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DoD Leaders Pressed On Sentinel ICBM Cost Overruns As Path Forward To Be Detailed Soon

DoD Leaders Pressed On Sentinel ICBM Cost Overruns As Path Forward To Be Detailed Soon
Pictured is a U.S. Air Force illustration of an LGM-35A Sentinel missile silo.

Senior Pentagon leaders on Tuesday were pressed on the department’s ongoing review of cost overruns with the Sentinel future intercontinental ballistic missile program, which is expected to be detailed to Congress soon before findings on the path forward are announced this summer. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) urged Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a House Armed Services Committee hearing to assure the panel that DoD would conduct a “truly fulsome and critical analysis” of the Sentinel program, after the Air Force…

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