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Air Force To Hold First GBSD Review Since Contract Awards

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, September 28th, 2017

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Air Force To Hold First GBSD Review Since Contract Awards

The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM. Photo: Air Force.

The U.S. Air Force, which awarded two contracts last month to mature designs for the Ground-based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), plans to hold the program’s first major review next month, a program official said Sept. 28.The system requirements review will ensure the prime contractors, Boeing [BA] and Northrop Grumman [NOC], fully understand the system’s requirements, said Col. Heath Collins, the Air Force’s GBSD program manager. A system functional review will follow about a year later and will ensure that lower-level requirements are…

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