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

Pat Host

Monday, March 16th, 2015

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

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) vowed Monday 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) and…

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