Minuteman III

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center may hold an industry day in late August at Hill AFB, Utah to gauge industry capacity to support a possible ICBM Development, Operations, […]

The Kansas City National Security Campus in March produced a proof-of-concept replacement fuse for an Air Force nuclear weapon, the Sandia National Laboratory said last week.  The Missouri site cranked […]

BAE Systems has received a nearly $652 million fixed-price level of effort contract modification from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, Utah to support the Boeing [BA] […]

The U.S. Air Force 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. and Northrop Grumman [NOC] began Launch Control Center Block Upgrades (LCCBU) this month to modernize support equipment for […]

Pittsburgh’s Gecko Robotics said on Nov. 29 that the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has awarded the company an 18-month, $1.5 million Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) […]

As the Biden administration conducts its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the administration is opposing a draft defense authorization bill provision that would prohibit a reduction below 400 Boeing [BA] Minuteman […]

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, Utah, on Sept. 17 awarded Boeing [BA] a contract potentially worth more than $1.6 billion through 2039 for guidance repair […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill directs the U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to inform the committee of radars’ ability to detect […]

The draft House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill requests DoD and independent reviews of the modernization of the nuclear command and control and […]

The head of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the top U.S. Air Force deterrence official defended the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) leg of the nuclear triad in separate forums on […]