For the past two years, the Tomahawk cruise missile program has faced potential procurement numbers too low to meet the minimum sustaining rate and the threat of a production line shut down, but what a difference a year makes.Just days away from Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget release, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday announced that the program is slated to receive $2 billion over the next five years to extend missile production and to invest in new capabilities.That sum will…
