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Unified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

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Unified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD

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The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House could vote on Thursday, calls on the Pentagon to speed up modernization of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic-missile fleet and air-launched cruise missiles.The unified National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) picked up House language requiring the Pentagon to find some way of speeding up the programs. The bill includes some extra program funding that could hasten the first downselects in the big Air Force initiatives.The unified NDAA would authorize some $700 million for…

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