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USAF Acquisition Strategy Review of Sentinel Continues As DoD Awaits New Administration Guidance

USAF Acquisition Strategy Review of Sentinel Continues As DoD Awaits New Administration Guidance
U.S. Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), addresses the Air and Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo. on March 6th last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

As the White House prepares to change hands and parties next month, the U.S. Air Force is continuing its acquisition strategy review of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM, a service official said on Thursday. "There is no pause with the administration change," Gen. Thomas Bussiere, the head of Air Force Global Strike Command, told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' virtual forum. "The program hasn't stopped--all the work that's going on in the design phase. There's been…

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