As the White House works to secure a new treaty with Russia on nuclear force levels by the end of the year, Maj. Gen. Roger Burg, who oversees the nation’s land-based strategic deterrent as head of 20th Air Force, offered his perspective. “Just the same as you would do with any strategic capability, get your strategy right and then figure out what time and cost [are] required to support it,” he said Sept. 15 at AFA’s Air & Space Conference. Burg said it’s important not to make cost the independent variable that drives the strategy. “I think we can all understand the urgency of arms control agreements that are about to expire and new relationships that need to be built, but we have got to get the strategy right” first, he said.
Northrop Grumman has broken ground on a major new production facility for the B-21 Raider, the company and the Air Force announced Oct. 6. The construction comes as a top service official said testing on the bomber is going well in the lead up to its planned introduction into the…
