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Tester Says He Will Keep GBSD ‘On Track;’ Ex-Obama Official Says GBSD ‘Vulnerable’

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Tester Says He Will Keep GBSD ‘On Track;’ Ex-Obama Official Says GBSD ‘Vulnerable’
A launch facility operated by Malmstrom AFB, Mont. is shown April 13, 2017. The 583rd Missile Maintenance Squadron, part of Air Force Materiel Command, completed programmed depot maintenance on a launch facility at Malmstrom, a first-ever for the intercontinental ballistic missile weapons system. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel, has supported GBSD (U.S. Air Force Photo)

In an online forum Tuesday, Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) vowed to use his appropriations gavel to keep the Air Force’s next-generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile “on track,” while a former senior pentagon official said congressional support for the program was broad but not deep. Tester delivered recorded remarks to an audience of just under 100 people during an online event hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based non-government group, the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance. Chair of Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee in the…

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