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Strategic Offensive Capabilities

These Department of Defense programs maintain intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and long-range nuclear-armed bombers, together with new non-nuclear strategic capabilities that strengthen the credibility of our offensive deterrence.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Department of Defense financial management system has identified weaknesses which affect the performance of the Strategic Offensive Capabilities programs.
  • Some of the systems supported by these programs have experienced cost and schedule issues that have affected the overall program performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Correcting the identified weaknesses in the financial management system of the Department of Defense will lead to improvements in the financial management of these programs.
  • Planned reductions in the size of the strategic nuclear forces will bring down the cost of these programs as fewer systems are ordered.

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