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THREAT WATCH Nuclear weapons agency gets 11% funding increase in FY18 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is marked for $13.9bn, an increase of $1bn, over the FY17 omnibus level. The vast majority of that funding will go towards NNSA’s nuclear weapons programmes.
US general wants nuclear modernisation accelerated The officer in charge of the US nuclear arsenal wants the Pentagon to accelerate its nuclear modernisation efforts.
"I have a safe, secure, reliable [nuclear] deterrent today and I will as long as I'm in command," US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) chief, General John Hyten told reporters on 20 June. "The commanders who come after me, they need the same capability,
which is why I want those schedules moving left."
Over the next 20 years the Pentagon plans to modernise each leg of the nuclear triad while also developing a new cruise missile.
Cuts to biothreat preparedness programmes In a public letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman US representative Greg Walden (R-OR), a group of Democratic House members requested that the committee hold a hearing regarding the country’s ability to be prepared for and respond to various biological threats. Cuts, the representatives said, could weaken US preparedness for a biological attack or an emerging infectious disease. Daniel Gerstein, a former senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, recently reiterated
the representatives’ concerns, stating that closing the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) could leave the nation at risk of a bioterror attack.
CW plant receives supplementary funding After unexpected cost overruns last year in the CW neutralisation projects at the Blue Grass army depot near Richmond and the Pueblo army depot in Colorado, both projects will receive a boost of $127m in supplementary funding during the current fiscal year.
GMD missile defence finally hits ICBM target Two days after North Korea’s latest missile launch, the US conducted a successful test of its homeland missile defence system for the first time in almost three years. Codenamed FTG-15, the event was also the system’s first test ever
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