REBALANCED STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIPrnPLAN SHEDS LIGHT ON NNSA EFFORTS

摘要

The National Nuclear Security Administration unveiled its Fiscal Year 2015 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan late last week, revealing updated costs figures for the agency’s rebalanced “3+2” warhead modernization strategy. The NNSA delayed work on the first interoperable warhead, cruise missile warhead and the First Production Units for the B61 refurbishment and W88 Alteration 370 this year because of budgetary concerns, and it said in the new report that the current plan is “generally affordable and more executable than the program proposed in the FY 2014 SSMP.” Funding for the NNSA’s weapons program under the plan is estimated to peak at between $13-15 billion by FY 2039. The NNSA did not respond to questions on the plan.