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Trump Administration Support for Nuclear Triad May Lead to Sentinel Reprieve

Trump Administration Support for Nuclear Triad May Lead to Sentinel Reprieve
Pictured is a shroud fly-off Test of the LGM-35A Sentinel at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif. to verify that the shroud did not strike the enclosed payload (Northrop Grumman Photo)

President Donald Trump's Wednesday executive order, Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base, speaks of cancellations of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) that are 15 percent over unit cost or 15 percent behind schedule, but the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM may get a reprieve, as DoD re-baselined the program last year after a six-month Nunn-McCurdy review that led then-DoD acquisition chief William LaPlante to certify that the program was essential to strategic deterrence…

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