Strategic Forces

The Strategic Forces Subcommittee is a specialized panel within the Senate Armed Services Committee that handles the nation's most sensitive defense priorities. As a subcommittee, it conducts initial hearings and reviews legislation before matters proceed to the full committee, which has final authority to report bills to the Senate floor. This division of labor allows the full committee to benefit from expert-level scrutiny of complex defense issues.

The subcommittee's jurisdiction covers a narrow but critical slice of defense policy. These responsibilities make the subcommittee essential to maintaining America's nuclear deterrent and space capabilities in an era of great power competition.

Recent subcommittee activity has focused on modernizing strategic forces.