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Senate Appropriators Boost GBSD for 2020

Tuesday, September 10th, 2019

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Senate Appropriators Boost GBSD for 2020

The next-generation, nuclear-armed, intercontinental ballistic missile that Boeing [BA] has vowed not to prime would get $65 million more than the White House requested for 2020, if a bill advanced Tuesday by a Senate Appropriations panel became law. The Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program would receive $635 million for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, under the 2020 Defense Appropriations Act that the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday sent on to the full Committee for a more…

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