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New SLBM Warhead Begins Budget Ramp Up in 2023

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New SLBM Warhead Begins Budget Ramp Up in 2023
The USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) launches one of two missile flight tests of unarmed life-extended Trident II D5LE missiles as part of a planned demonstration to evaluate the submarine’s readiness following an overhaul. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The W93 submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, the first in decades that is not a refurbishment of a weapon already sailing the seas, will be in line for a big budget increase if Congress goes along with the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget request. W93, led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, would see its budget more than triple to over $240 million in fiscal 2023 from more than $70 million in fiscal year 2022, according a small budget-summary document…

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