The Air Force wants to cut research and development funds from its life-extension program for the B61-12 gravity bomb tailkit and an effort to improve ground-based nuclear missile system capabilities to pay for other priorities within the nuclear enterprise. In its fiscal year 2018 budget request released this week, the Air Force is asking for $91.2 million in FY-18 for the B61 tailkit modernization instead of the $151 million the service projected in its FY-17 budget documents. Similarly, a technology-maturation...
