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‘Massive’ Delays, Bills, Cancellations at NNSA ‘Must End,’ House Armed Services Chair Says

‘Massive’ Delays, Bills, Cancellations at NNSA ‘Must End,’ House Armed Services Chair Says
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On Monday, not long after senior nuclear-weapons managers gathered outside of Washington and lamented programmatic gear-grinding caused by what they called premature attempts to pin down costs, the House Armed Services chair asked the president to consider shrinking the arsenal, in part over concerns about its affordability.   The Biden administration’s forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review should “[t]ask the Secretary of Defense and the Commander of Strategic Command to provide you specific, credible, and realistic options to reduce the requirements that drive…

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