The US Air Force said it intends to complete by the end of the year a restructuring plan for the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system from Northrop Grumman Corp., after the projected ...

The US Air Force's new ICBM Sentinel faces major delays and cost overruns. The service may have to rely on its 50-year-old Minuteman III's for much longer than anticipated. A host of logistical and ...

Key Points and Summary - The LGM-35A Sentinel, slated to replace Minuteman III, faces soaring costs and delays. -A 2024 review found an 81% jump to $141B, triggering a Nunn-McCurdy breach. The DoD ...

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

Scrapping ICBM modernization plans would do a great deal to better reflect America’s current strategic end goals. The Department of Defense recently released a $961.6 billion proposed budget for FY ...

The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. (That’s the equivalent of Americans ...