A senior Air Force official told InsideDefense.com today that the service is on or ahead of schedule on several processes required under the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia while awaiting an important decision on the Defense Department's future ballistic missile force structure. That decision, on whether to reduce DOD's missile inventory by cutting some of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) or the Navy's submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) to meet New START treaty limits, is unlikely...
