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Bridenstine Vows To Fund Air Force’s Pathfinder 2 COMSATCOM Program

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

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Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) vowed March 16 to find funding for the Air Force's commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) "Pathfinder 2" program, which he said was not funded in the service's fiscal year 2016 budget request."I'm going to make sure, to the best I can, that Pathfinder 2 is funded," Bridenstine said at the Satellite 2015 convention in downtown Washington. "We're going to get that money put back in the budget."Though Bridenstein, as a member of House Armed Services Committee (HASC)…

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