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Milley Tells HASC Don’t Pause GBSD To Save Funds For Other Priorities, Cites Capability Gap Concerns

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Milley Tells HASC Don’t Pause GBSD To Save Funds For Other Priorities, Cites Capability Gap Concerns
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during a developmental test on Feb. 5 last year at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Army Gen. Mark Milley, the joint chiefs chairman, told lawmakers on Wednesday he would not recommend pausing development of the future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile as a means of saving funds for other priorities, citing a concern that a delay would lead to a gap in nuclear deterrence capability. “I would not recommend taking that money away and putting it elsewhere,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee. “The recapitalization of the entire [nuclear] triad, to…

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