The Defense Department is in the midst of a new six-month independent cost estimate of the Air Force's Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program, a multibillion-dollar effort to replace the service's Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The cost assessment and program evaluation office “is updating its initial estimate of GBSD costs to incorporate the insights gained during the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase,” Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Malinda Singleton told Inside the Air Force in an April 11 email...
