With budgetary pressure facing the nation’s nuclear deterrent, the Air Force and Navy in recent years have ramped up cooperation, and one of the Air Force’s top nuclear officials said yesterday that the cooperation is already reaping dividends. Speaking at the Capitol Hill Club, Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, said the services are “making huge progress” collaborating, sharing information and pursuing common components among the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. “Every day I’m told of new ways that the Air Force and the Navy have found, in even very small things to relatively large things, ways where we could cooperate, we could pool resources and work,” Harencak said. “And so it’s working great. And can we do more? Yes. And will we do more? Absolutely.”
Harencak cautioned, however, that the services would not pursue commonality just for the sake of collaborating. “We’re going to do it where it makes sense to do it and we’re going to make sure that we’re not leaving those who come behind us some pretty big bills to pay just so we could say that we’re doing the same thing,” Harencak said.
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