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U.S. Air Force Acquisition Chief Letter to North Dakota Senators Acknowledges Threat of Chinese Company Near Base

U.S. Air Force Acquisition Chief Letter to North Dakota Senators Acknowledges Threat of Chinese Company Near Base
Airmen assigned to the 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron from Grand Forks AFB, N.D., perform a maintenance check on June 6th last year on an RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk drone at Grand Sky on Grand Forks AFB. The RQ-4 Block 30s are to be used at the Test Resource Management Center’s High Speed System Test Department (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A letter from U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter last month to North Dakota's senators acknowledges the thteat that a Chinese company would pose to national security, if the company--a leading maker of monosodium glutamate--is allowed to build a plant near Grand Forks AFB, N.D. Hunter met in December with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), a co-chair of the Senate Air Force Caucus, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) "regarding the Fufeng Group's proposal to build a large corn mill processing…

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