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Air Force Could Take More Than A Year To Better Refine GBSD Price Tag

Pat Host

Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

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Air Force Could Take More Than A Year To Better Refine GBSD Price Tag

Air Force Global Stroke Command airmen from the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--It could take the Air Force more than a year to better refine its Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) cost estimate as service Secretary Deborah James said she wants to use industry input to better inform this effort.In the meantime, James said the Air Force would talk with the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office and potentially Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work over the next few months to figure out a new estimated price tag for GBSD in the…

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