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DoD Review Of Sentinel Finds Further Cost Increases, Schedule Delays; Program To Be Restructured

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DoD Review Of Sentinel Finds Further Cost Increases, Schedule Delays; Program To Be Restructured
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center conducted its first full-scale static test fire of the LGM-35A Sentinel stage-one solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman test facility in Promontory, Utah on March 2 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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decision in 2020 to initiate the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Sentinel program has been rescinded, the Defense Department said on Monday. The announcement followed a program review triggered by the Air Force’s notification to Congress in January that the LGM-35A Sentinel was in critical breach of the Nunn-McCurdy statute by being at least 25 percent above…

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