Vipin Narang, DoD’s top nuclear policy official, explained that while current modernization plans — estimated by the Government Accountability Office last October to cost at least $350 billion over the next two decades — are “necessary,” they “may well be insufficient” to meet current and future threats.
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Vipin Narang, who was tapped as acting assistant secretary following Plumb’s departure, is due to exit back to MIT within a few months; Travis Langster, who has been shepherding the transition of DoD’s commercial space monitoring mission to the Commerce Department, has joined DoD’s acquisition office.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: Most observers of President Trump’s North Korean diplomacy are understandably skeptical of whether the Hermit Kingdom is any closer to curbing expansion of its nuclear arsenal. But presumptive commander of UN Korean Forces did present evidence today to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the temperature of conflict on the Korean peninsula really…
By Colin Clark and Paul McLeary
