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Kendall: Air Force to Release RFP for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Shortly

Kendall: Air Force to Release RFP for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Shortly
The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM in September 2010. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force will issue a request for proposals (RFP) in a matter of weeks for its next-generation ICBM, known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), the Pentagon’s acquisition chief said Wednesday."We are on track,” Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told lawmakers during a Senate defense appropriations subcommittee hearing. "It's [in its] early stages, and the first substantive work will be some risk reduction work and some preliminary design work. We want to get…

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