Long Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO)
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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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BudgetUnified 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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Air ForceSenate Bill Limits LRSO Funding
A Senate bill has been drafted that would limit funding for the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) Weapon at 2017 levels until President Donald Trump’s administration submits a Nuclear Posture Review […]
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CongressMattis Backs F-35, Noncommittal On LRSO
President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee backed the F-35 during his Senate nomination hearing Thursday, but was noncommittal toward the Air Force’s next-generation nuclear cruise missile, one of the service’s […]
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BudgetNeither Clinton Nor Trump Can Fix Defense Spending Caps Without Agreement With Congress
Whoever is sworn in as president in January, the new chief executive will have less than a year to make a deal with Congress or watch the military’s budget be […]
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Air Force
Air Force Official Defends LRSO, Says Funding ‘Not the Main Issue’
Funding will not be a problem in President Barack Obama administration’s plan to field a new Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile, Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, Air Force deputy chief […]
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Air Force
Senators Urge Obama To Cancel Long Range Standoff Weapon
Ten Democratic senators urged President Barack Obama to cancel the Air Force’s Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon before he leaves office in January, according to a letter obtained by Defense […]
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CongressOfficials Dispel Rumors on Nuclear Posture, Nonproliferation Changes Under Obama
Top defense and energy officials testified Thursday in defense of current U.S. nuclear modernization priorities and dispelled rumors that President Barack Obama is planning to take nonproliferation steps in the […]
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UncategorizedSenators, Former Officials Debate New Nuclear Cruise Missile
Lawmakers and former U.S. national security officials continue to disagree over the necessity to field a new nuclear-armed cruise missile, the Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) weapon, and cited Wednesday the Russian […]
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Air ForceAir Force Chief Nominee Gen. Goldfein: Nuclear Modernization Milestones Imminent
The nominee to become the next Air Force chief of staff announced imminent program milestone decisions for two of the service’s nuclear modernization programs during a confirmation before a Senate […]