The Navy is wrapping up a project to define options for a new nuclear-tipped, submarine-launched cruise missile with plans to conclude by the end of the summer an analysis of alternatives that will offer Defense Department leaders --and the incoming Biden administration -- a turn-key solution to launch development of a program in fiscal year 2022, according to a senior service official. Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, head of Strategic Systems Programs, said today the service is still working on potential alternatives for a follow-on to the nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missile, a task that stems from the Trump administration's 2018 Nuclear Posture Review guidance, that in turn, flipped the Obama administration's recommendation to retire such capabilities.
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