The Senate Armed Services Committee in the report accompanying its fiscal year 2026 authorization bill would order a briefing on how Air Force Global Strike Command plans to maintain its Cold War-era fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Sentinel modernization program continues to face delays. Minuteman III will need to remain online until the LGM-35A Sentinel can replace it, but that program is still undergoing a rebaselining effort after breaching the Nunn-McCurdy law’s critical cost growth threshold last year...
