The Defense Department will not direct or require the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent prime contractors to use more than one supplier of large solid-rocket motors. "The prime contractors will determine which LSRM vendor(s) to include as part of the engineering and manufacturing development phase proposals," Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Cara Bousie told Inside Defense in an email today. The impact of GBSD -- the nuclear triad's intercontinental ballistic missile replacement program -- on the health of the large solid-rocket...
