Land-Based Strategic Deterrence

The Boeing-built Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapon system has served as the Nation’s trusted and enduring ground-based leg of the nuclear triad since the inception of strategic deterrence.

Boeing is the U.S. Air Force’s original partner in strategic deterrence. Today, hundreds of Boeing employees across the country continue to maintain the readiness of the Minuteman ICBM – keeping it safe, secure and effective around the clock.

Boeing supports the Air Force and its efforts to modernize the nation’s ICBM force – and will continue working alongside Airmen to keep the Minuteman ICBM mission-ready while delivering innovative solutions in support of strategic deterrence today and tomorrow.

Boeing remains ready and willing to assist in the modernization of our land-based strategic deterrent.

The Boeing Guidance Repair Center in Heath, Ohio, is responsible for maintaining the readiness and modernization of guidance and navigation systems for our Nation’s nuclear-capable platforms, as well as non-nuclear capable guidance and control systems, electronics and radio frequency systems, and platform processors.

In addition, the center is also home to assembly, integration and test activities for several Boeing production programs, including the KC-46 Tanker, T-7A Red Hawk and the MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system.

Little Mountain Test Facility

Boeing operates and maintains the Little Mountain Test Facility for the Air Force at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and has supported operations at the site – including radiation effects, electromagnetic effects, shock and vibration, and other environmental testing – for more than 45 years.

The state-of-the-art facility is dedicated to testing operations in support of nuclear hardness and survivability for the Boeing-built Minuteman weapon system and other priority Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DoE) programs, military systems and aerospace products.

Boeing has delivered strategic deterrence capabilities for the air-based leg of the Nation’s nuclear triad for more than 40 years.

From sustaining and modernizing the Boeing-built air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) to sustaining the venerable B-52 Bomber and KC-10 Tanker, Boeing expertise fuels ready and flexible nuclear capabilities from the skies.

Boeing innovation will continue to drive the readiness and modernization of the ALCM weapon system, America’s bomber fleet and KC-46 Tanker to ensure long-range air-based strategic deterrence for the future.

As the sole supplier of navigation systems for the U.S. Navy's ballistic missile submarine fleet, Boeing provides critical information and support to the sea-based leg of the Nation’s nuclear triad.

Boeing’s innovative navigation systems have been on patrol alongside Sailors since the first ballistic missile submarine test patrol by the USS George Washington in 1960.

Today, Boeing’s Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) navigation system is aboard all of the Navy’s ballistic missile submarines – supporting ready and survivable nuclear capabilities from the high seas.

Boeing will continue to lead the way in the modernization of navigation systems in support of a safe, secure and effective sea-based strategic deterrent capable of meeting the emerging threats and future challenges of tomorrow.