Air Force, Seeking Future ICBM Direction, To Hold Industry Day This Month

By Gabe Starosta / November 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Air Force officials will be meeting with industry later this month to help mature potential concepts for the service's future intercontinental ballistic missile posture -- an enterprise known as Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent the Air Force is working to better define. The Minuteman III, the Defense Department's current ICBM fleet, is scheduled to remain operational until 2030, but service officials have already begun to consider how to meet ground-based nuclear requirements after that period. The Air Force held an industry day...

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