System Features
Weapons Generation Facilities are a new type of facility that consolidates the weapon storage, maintenance, generation and training functions required to support the intercontinental ballistic missile and strategic bomber missions.
The WGF Lifecycle Management Program Office provides dedicated 24/7 lifecycle management for seven Air Force Global Strike Command-assigned WGFs. The more than $3 billion program ensures reliability, availability and maintainability standards are met to support nuclear deterrence operations capabilities. The consolidation of functions, modernization of systems and reduction in required acreage will make the WGFs more secure and efficient than their predecessors.
Once operational, the WGFs will support the intercontinental ballistic missile, B-21 and B-52 missions.
Background
The WGFs are required to support AFGSC’s mission. The current weapons storage areas were built primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. After completing the first comprehensive assessment of the WSAs, AFNWC successfully advocated for full modernization, demonstrating the need to design and construct entirely new facilities to meet the needs of today’s AFGSC mission. AFNWC has managed this process since 2016.
In September 2020, AFNWC stood up PI as a new directorate to increase focus on modernizing support infrastructure of current WSAs into WGFs, as well as supporting nuclear military construction projects under the Air Force program executive officers for strategic systems and nuclear command, control and communications. On Oct. 22, 2025, the WGFs were officially established under AFNWC as an Acquisition Category III program office by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.
Establishment as a program office formalized the relationship between AFNWC and the WGF stakeholders and provided the warfighter with a single manager throughout the lifecycle of the facilities, beginning with design and ending with long-term sustainment. Those stakeholders include AFGSC, AFMC, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Naval Facility Engineering Command, the national laboratories, and multiple Air Force installation representatives.
Future of Weapons Generation Facilities
Seven WGFs are being constructed and will continue through the next 20 years. The four projects currently in construction phases are two ICBM and two bomber WGFs valued at over $1 billion. The inaugural WGF, located at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, is scheduled to be operational by January 2027, with three additional facilities reaching Initial Operational Capability in fiscal year 2029. Sustainment of seven WGFs is projected through fiscal year 2096