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General: Cost worries could derail plan for next bomber to be unmanned
May 11, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Making the nation’s future bomber aircraft capable of flying by remote control could prove unaffordable, a senior U.S. Air Force general said on Thursday. Cost considerations are “probably going to make it difficult to afford an unmanned solution up front,” Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, who heads the Air Force Global ...
Draft House measure demands nuclear capability in bomber from get-go
April 26, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
A key panel of the House Armed Services Committee has drafted legislation that would require the Defense Department to ensure its future bomber has a nuclear-weapons capability immediately upon fielding . If passed into law, the provision would toss out existing Air Force plans to phase in a nuclear capability ...
U.S. Navy to grapple with dip in deployed subs for more than a decade
March 30, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy will field fewer than its objective 12 nuclear-armed submarines for more than a decade, due to a recently announced two-year delay in building its first Ohio-class replacement vessel. The service plans to operate for 14 years -- mostly in the 2030s -- without a full ...
Officials defend delay for next missile intercept test
March 7, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
U.S. Defense Department officials on Tuesday defended their decision to delay a planned missile defense intercept test to late this year, saying more time would be needed before they are ready for the trial launch. Testifying before a House panel, Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, who heads the Pentagon's Missile Defense ...
Air Force plans two-year delay in developing new Cruise Missile
February 24, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
The B-52H Stratofortress bomber will likely carry the new missiles developed by the program.United States Air Force The Air Force now plans a two-year delay in the development of a new $1.3 billion weapon to replace today's nuclear-capable Air Launched Cruise Missile aboard bomber aircraft, according to budget documents submitted ...
U.S. can safely take deeper nuclear arms cuts, senior Defense official says
February 16, 2012 A top Defense Department official on Wednesday said a fresh round of reductions in strategic nuclear weapons could be done without harming U.S. security, though the Pentagon has not yet offered President Obama a recommendation on the matter. “I do believe that there are steps that we can take to ...
Pentagon unveils new conventional sub-based missile plan
January 27, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Defense Department plans to develop a new conventional ballistic missile for fielding on attack submarines, according to major budget decisions announced on Thursday at the Pentagon. "The Navy will invest in a design that will allow new Virginia-class submarines to be modified to carry more cruise ...
Defense bill seeks new submarine cost assessment
December 16, 2011 A U.S. House-Senate conference bill on fiscal 2012 defense policy matters calls for a new government estimate of the costs to develop, build and operate a planned Navy ballistic-missile submarine that some experts warn could prove unaffordable. Within six months of the legislation's enactment, the Navy secretary and the military ...
Clinton moves to inject new urgency into bioweapon concerns at Geneva event
December 2, 2011 In a surprise announcement, a senior State Department official said on Thursday that Hillary Clinton would appear next week at an international conference on biological warfare prevention and preparedness -- an event that even policy wonks had previously grumbled would likely prove dull and inconsequential. The U.S. secretary of State's ...
GE-Hitachi fined for "significant" security breaches in nuclear fuel effort
October 21, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy has paid more than $45,000 in penalties for "significant" violations of federal regulations in its effort to develop a new means of producing atomic fuel, Global Security Newswire has learned. Newly available U.S. government documents show that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined in May that the company's ...
