Air Force assessing Sentinel ICBMs for potential Nunn-McCurdy breach

By Shelley K. Mesch / December 21, 2023 at 10:16 AM
The Air Force is assessing whether the nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile modernization program's cost overruns have breached legal thresholds that could trigger further investigation, an Air Force spokeswoman told Inside Defense . The LGM-35A Sentinel program manager filed a program deviation report with the Air Force, as first reported by Bloomberg , the spokeswoman confirmed. The report, filed Dec. 11, is a notification that the project may have exceeded acquisition program baselines set in 2020. The Air Force under...

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