Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Nuclear Force Advocates React Positively to FIP Reforms

By Photo of Todd Jacobson

Brian Bradley
NS&D Monitor
3/6/2015
Leaders of strategic deterrence advocacy groups are reacting positively to the Air Force’s implementation of the Force Improvement Program (FIP), which began in February 2014 to address morale issues and equipment…

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Administration Officials Defend Acceleration of Work on LRSO, Cruise Missile Warhead

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Klotz Against DOE Name Change, but Mum on Other Recommendations for NNSA

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Air Force: B-2 Availability Increasing

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CBO: Nuke Costs to Spike in early 2020s

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At Sandia

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