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Navy Reschedules Modular Missile Industry Day

Rich Abott — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:44:13 +0000

The Navy has rescheduled an industry day for the Naval Modular Missile (NMM) program for Feb. 27, after it was previously postponed in October during the government shutdown, according to […]

Govini Tapped For Navy Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base Software

Rich Abott — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:08:23 +0000

Software company Govini on Wednesday said it has been tapped by the Navy to help identify issues across parts of the nuclear submarine industrial base. The company said this means […]

Navy Ramps Up SLCM-N With Industry Research

Rich Abott — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:13:58 +0000

As the Navy ramps up the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) All Up Round (AUR) development program, it has started to conduct market research for sources to support this congressionally-mandated […]

U.S. Air Force Kicks Off Launch Control Center Block Upgrades for Minuteman III

Frank Wolfe — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:17:32 +0000

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 […]

Navy Eyes 2026 Decision On First Ohio-Class SSBN Extension

Rich Abott — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:35:03 +0000

Navy officials this week said the service plans to decide by fiscal year 2026 if it will extend the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) as the first of several Ohio-class ballistic missile […]

STRATCOM Nominee: Development of LRSO for U.S. Air Force On Track

Frank Wolfe — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:58:40 +0000

Development of the Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) to replace the Boeing [BA] AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) has raised no technology readiness level (TRL) concerns […]

Navy Conducts Successful Trident Missile Test

Rich Abott — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 21:19:29 +0000

The Navy successfully conducted a two-missile flight test of unarmed life-extended Trident II (D5LE) missiles from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) on Sept. 17. This test was […]

Hyten Argues For Integrated Nuclear Posture and Missile Defense Reviews

Rich Abott — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:12:50 +0000

The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday argued for the importance of integrating the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Reviews, either as a new combined […]

STRATCOM Chief Argues Against Delaying Next-Gen ICBM

Rich Abott — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 22:31:27 +0000

The commander of U.S. Strategic Command said Tuesday the Pentagon must continue to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a next-generation system and it cannot undergo further […]

PODCAST: Boeing and Northrop Lock Horns over Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent

Defense Daily Staff — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:18:09 +0000

Tensions are building — or perhaps have boiled over — between Boeing and Northrop Grumman on potentially $100 billion worth of work, over five decades, replacing and maintaining the ground-based leg of […]