Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen Wilson argued the service's effort to modernize its nuclear assets tops the Air Force's other key procurement efforts going into fiscal year 2018 budget discussions, in an appearance before a Senate defense subcommittee Feb. 8. Though work to update the land-based intercontinental ballistic missile and the air-launched cruise missile enjoy bipartisan support in Congress, the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter, KC-46 tanker and B-21 bomber procurement usually headline the Air Force's priorities. Wilson...
