The Nuclear Enterprise reviews completed last year showed that the triad is running at a $9 to $25 billionrnrecapitalization and sustainment deficit—not including bombers and ballistic missile submarines—a shortfall thatrnwill take “years” to fix, a top National Nuclear Security Administration official told Senators April 22. “We did notrnevaluate any of the replacement programs themselves other than to note that it will be years before the newrnsystems are fielded, and in the meantime, the existing systems must be maintained,” NNSA Principal DeputyrnAdministrator Madelyn Creedon stated in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Strategic ForcesrnSubcommittee. Creedon headed up a review while in a previous position at the Pentagon, and she added that thernreviews did not include NNSA warhead life extension and sustainment efforts.
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