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Budget

NNSA Again Seeks Substantial Increase for W80 Refurb

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

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NNSA Again Seeks Substantial Increase for W80 Refurb

The Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) is the predecessor to the eventual Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon. Photo: Air Force.

Proportionally or by raw dollars, the W80-4 life-extension program would get the biggest increase of any active Department of Energy warhead refurbishment in 2020, if the Trump administration’s budget request became law. The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory-led life-extension program already got an enormous budget increase in 2019 to pace the warhead’s refurb with development of the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) missile that will carry it, and DoE wants an even bigger one this year: an increase of more than 35 percent,…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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Congress

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