
The House version of the 2024 defense authorization act includes funding to develop a nuclear-tipped seal-launched cruise missile, and the program will make it into law despite the White House’s desire to kill it, according to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). Wittman, who is vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), chair of the tactical air and land forces subcommittee and sits on the seapower and projection forces subcommittee, said on Monday that a nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N)…