Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD)

Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]

Six Republican senators, including Deb Fischer (Neb.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) strategic forces panel, have introduced a bill to authorize multi-year procurement (MYP) authority […]

The Secretary of the Air Force would have to inform Congress of any schedule slips of one month or more in the initial operational capability (IOC) for the Northrop Grumman […]

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown suggested on June 7 that the Air Force’s fiscal 2024 request for multi-year procurements (MYPs) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] […]

Robert Moriarty, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Installations, has given the go-ahead to start the support construction phase for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel […]

The Pentagon said that it is embarking on risk reduction on the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel program through an acceleration in the buy of test equipment for initial operational […]

The Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM may have trouble making its planned date for initial operational capability (IOC), U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Apr. 27. “There […]

DoD officials have said that the Pentagon’s fiscal 2024 munitions budget of $30.6 billion–a 24 percent increase over last year’s request of $24.7 billion–stems from the Pentagon’s focus on the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed the first full-scale static test of an LGM-35A Sentinel solid rocket motor at its test facility in Promontory, Utah, marking yet another milestone on the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 16 that it executed wind tunnel tests of its LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM for the U.S. Air Force. “Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed […]