Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD)
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AnalysisAnalysis: Force Boeing and Northrop Grumman to Play Nice on GBSD?
Editor’s note: This is an analysis produced by Defense Daily’s reporting team. It’s clear that Boeing [BA], which designed, built and serviced every Minuteman missile since the venerable launcher became […]
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Air ForceBoeing Triggers Nuclear Option, Walks Away From ‘Unfair’ ICBM Competition
Citing “unfair” competition from a rival with a captive solid rocket motor business, Boeing Co. [BA] this week walked away from a potentially $25 billion Air Force contract to build […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoD Policy Official Ducks Question About Delivery of Nuclear Cores if Congress Block Planned Plutonium Plant
A senior defense official declined to say Wednesday whether the Department of Energy can deliver nuclear warheads for next-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles on time if Congress does not fund both […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Chair Floats Cuts for GBSD, Extension for Minuteman III
To give the Pentagon more money to spend in the future, the U.S. could buy fewer new intercontinental ballistic missiles and again extend its aging fleet of nuclear-tipped Minuteman III […]
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BudgetA 1,000-Warhead Arsenal Could Slash U.S Deficit by $13 Billion Over Two Decades, CBO Says
The United States could shave about $13 billion off the federal deficit over about 20 years by slashing some 500 warheads from the nation’s nuclear arsenal, the nonpartisan federal Congressional […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Missiles Win Bigger Budget Boosts in Compromise DoD Spending Bill
The House and Senate this week sent a multiagency spending bill to President Trump’s desk that boosts the Department of Energy’s budget for nuclear warhead modernization, and reached a compromise […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Top HASC Dem Says U.S. Wants to Buy Too Many New ICBMs
The U.S. does not need as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Air Force plans to build, and Congress should take another look at a low-yield warhead lawmakers just approved, […]
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Budget
Unified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House could vote on Thursday, calls on the Pentagon to speed up modernization of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic-missile fleet and air-launched cruise […]
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PentagonSelva Says Nuclear Deterrent Modernization Is DoD’s Top Priority, B-21 Passes PDR
Not only is modernizing and recapitalizing the nuclear deterrent the Pentagon’s top priority, but modernizing the system’s command and control (C2) capabilities is another prerogative, according to officials. The Defense […]
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Air ForceRumored SECDEF Candidate Cotton Says U.S. Should Support NATO, Modernize Nuclear Arsenal
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), whose name has been run through the rumor mill this week as a possible candidate for Secretary of Defense under President-elect Donald Trump, on Thursday emphasized […]