Trump-era nukes, Army programs likeliest FY23 budget cuts: Experts
With the release of the Pentagon's FY23 budget request likely only a month or so away, defense experts offered their best guesses about what programs might be on the chopping block.
By Valerie Insinna on February 07, 2022 at 4:21 PM
WASHINGTON: Trump-era nuclear weapons, the Army’s new fighting vehicle and reconnaissance rotorcraft, and the venerable MQ-9 Reaper are all programs that could be on the chopping block in the Pentagon’s upcoming fiscal year 2023 budget request, a panel of defense experts predicted today.
The Biden administration is behind schedule on submitting its FY23 budget (which, by statute, should have been submitted to Congress today). In lieu of a new spending request, five defense experts gathered for a virtual roundtable about what the upcoming budget could include — and what could be cut as the administration seeks out cost savings.
Two of those programs seen as most vulnerable are a pair of new nuclear weapons that were announced as part of the Trump Administration’s nuclear posture review in 2018: the W76-2 nuclear warhead — a low-yield nuke launched from submarines, which first deployed in 2019 — and the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/trump-era-nukes-army-programs-likeliest-fy23-budget-cuts-experts/
