CSBA in the News

Pentagon officials are divided over how many new details to reveal about the upcoming U.S. Air Force long-range bomber funded by the military’s “black budget,” which is shrouded in secrecy. The B-2 bomber’s most precious technical details are expected to remain under wraps, though the public could learn about advanced weapons systems and intelligence capabilities of which only government developers are aware.

The U.S. Air Force’s newest bomber is poised to emerge from the shadows of the Pentagon’s so-called black budget.

Modernization costs for America’s aging nuclear arsenal will be expensive but will not exceed 5 percent of national defense spending in the coming decades, according to projections by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

How close are we to fully automated weaponry? Are there actual killer robots out there right now, ready to fight wars?

A Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) study released Aug. 4 disputes the widely circulated theory that modernization of the strategic nuclear triad, including replacing the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines and their sea-launched intercontinental missiles, is “unaffordable.”

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments acknowledges in a new report that modernizing U.S. nuclear forces — with programs such as the Ohio-class replacement ballistic missile submarine — will compete for funds conventional weapons upgrades like the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).