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Department of Air Force Budgets $3.7 Billion for Sentinel in Fiscal 2025, Re-Examines Requirements Looking to Fiscal 2026

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Department of Air Force Budgets $3.7 Billion for Sentinel in Fiscal 2025, Re-Examines Requirements Looking to Fiscal 2026
Representatives from the U.S. Air Force, Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Montana pose for a photo during the Weapons Generation Facility (WGF) groundbreaking ceremony at Malmstrom AFB,, Mont. on March 9. This facility --the second to start construction after the one at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. in 2019--is part of a $1 billion WGF program to replace facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Department of the Air Force's $217.5 billion fiscal 2025 budget requests $3.7 billion for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A future ICBM--an amount even with last year's ask, as the department looks at cost saving alternatives and faces possible fielding delays to address a Nunn-McCurdy breach. The latter occurs when programs exceed 25 percent program acquisition unit cost growth. In January, the Air Force informed Congress of a 37 percent unit cost Nunn-McCurdy program breach on Sentinel–an increase in unit…

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