"a mix of capabilities is needed to provide the President with credible, limited options to counter limited nuclear use... This includes the acceleration and deployment of SLCM-N. The NWC is actively analyzing potential additional options..."
"OMB chief says massive defense request is a 'seize-the-moment' budget to expand weapons production"
“One proposal under consideration among the mediators would see Iran suspend enrichment for a decade and then permit Tehran to produce a modest amount of low-enriched uranium for at least another 10 years.”
Russia/China "are attempting to undermine the development of Golden Dome..and are probably developing methods to attempt to defeat the system...In October, North Korea displayed a new solid propellant [ICBM], which is likely intended to improve [DPRK's] ability to challenge U.S. homeland [BMD]."
DIA Director: "Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region, despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure." armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...
“President Trump took decisive action by launching Operation EPIC FURY to degrade Iranian power projection capability and more broadly ensure…Iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon. Such an undertaking has demanded an employment of significant American resources, attention, and industrial capacity.”
"Some number of the developmental ballistic missiles with a range of more than 400 km (248.5 mi.) remain in the inventory, a spokesperson for the Fires Center of Excellence tells Aviation Week."
“Because we are looking at the threats from a multi-domain perspective to make sure I have redundant capabilities...So, if boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it, because we have other options to get after it.”
"Both sides probably want an off-ramp, but maximalist demands coupled with a poor understanding of their adversary greatly reduces the chance of success."
“We shot our entire inventory of PRSM right now during the start of the war, and we’ve already got more coming in,” said Jimmy Arter, the transformation and lessons-learned manager in the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, speaking at the Fires Symposium here.
However, if the goal is to have an operational system by the time Trump leaves office,..“You don’t have time to design and construct really anything new. So, you’re leveraging existing infrastructure, you’re leveraging existing power systems, existing capabilities”
“The 2027 Defense Budget Request: The Good, the Bad, and What to Watch”
"At the center is a roughly $4.2 billion expansion of SM-3 Block IIA procurement, including about $3.4 billion in reconciliation funding, aimed at scaling production and adapting the interceptor for, presumably, land-based defense of U.S. cities and critical infrastructure."
"The draft law proposes an increase in the number of nuclear warheads, whilst maintaining nuclear arms spending at about 13% of the overall defence budget.
France spends roughly 5.6 billion euros ($6.0 billion) a year to maintain its stockpile of 290 submarine- and air-launched weapons"
"The FY ‘27 budget seeks to procure 136 SM-3 IIAs at a cost of about $4.2 billion, or about $31 million each...This is a dramatic 518 percent increase in interceptor numbers from the FY ‘26 final appropriations of $510 million for 11 SM-3 IIAs."
The full NNSA weapons activities request has been released: www.energy.gov/cfo/articles.... A snap shot of NNSA's five year/outyear defense spending plans over time. The FY27 FYSNP has the FY28-31 budgets growing at a 2% nominal rate annually.
