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  "edition": "1.0",
  "program_id": "sentinel",
  "name": "LGM-35A Sentinel",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-09-24",
  "evidence_cutoff": "2026-09-24T10:55:44Z",
  "time_zone": "UTC",
  "scope": "U.S. Air Force Sentinel/GBSD acquisition accountability. Original baseline through selected official 2026 records; no weapon design analysis, complete cash ledger or independent operational certification.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "n01",
      "publisher": "U.S. Air Force / DoD",
      "title": "LGM-35A Sentinel Modernized Selected Acquisition Report, December 31, 2023",
      "document_date": "2023-12-31",
      "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Selected_Acquisition_Reports/FY_2023_SARS/LGM-35A_Sentinel_MSAR_Dec_2023.pdf",
      "pdf_page": 13,
      "locator": "PDF/printed pp. 8–11: breach history and original schedule; p. 13: constant-2020 and then-year acquisition estimates; pp. 16–17: unit-cost changes and revised indices; p. 21: EMD contract; p. 24: funding-summary inconsistency. The FY2025 budget report includes 2024 events despite its December 2023 label.",
      "access_note": "Reused the hash-checked official PDF retrieved September 12, 2026; fresh direct access returned 403. Schedule, cost, contract and expenditure tables inspected visually. This is a historical pre-recertification estimate, not the 2026 baseline.",
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "sentinel-msar-dec2023.pdf",
        "sha256": "33120fc7f70e89d78c43909e641aec04456c982c17e228aaac29413070915c62",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:01.629379+00:00"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "n02",
      "publisher": "DoD News / U.S. Air Force",
      "title": "Department of Defense announces results of Sentinel Nunn-McCurdy Review",
      "document_date": "2024-07-08",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Features/Article/3830205/department-of-defense-announces-results-of-sentinel-nunn-mccurdy-review/",
      "locator": "Paragraphs on January 18 notification, certification, rescinded Milestone B, $140.9bn / 81% reported comparison, command-and-launch cost growth and estimated delay.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. The release does not explicitly label the dollar basis of its $140.9bn figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "n03",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office",
      "title": "Weapon Systems Annual Assessment — GAO-26-108457",
      "document_date": "2026-07-02",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108457.pdf",
      "pdf_page": 103,
      "locator": "PDF pp. 103–104 / printed pp. 91–92, Sentinel assessment. January 2026 interim status; current cost row under review; altered first-flight scope, 2027 pad-based tests and Q3 FY2030 silo-based test; unresolved rebaseline and program-office targets.",
      "access_note": "Reused the hash-checked official PDF retrieved September 12; fresh direct PDF access failed. Both Sentinel pages were visually reviewed. July publication does not make its January assessment a September observation.",
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "gao-26-108457.pdf",
        "sha256": "f9afddd66fcaefe7c6f91dcf644a836a6b971fb792217c601cbc3d37adaac610",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:12.343318+00:00"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "n04",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs",
      "title": "Delivering deterrence: Sentinel restructure to complete in 2026; initial capability timeline set",
      "document_date": "2026-02-17",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4407679/delivering-deterrence-sentinel-restructure-to-complete-in-2026-initial-capabili/",
      "locator": "Opening and program-restructure paragraphs: new Milestone B targeted by end-2026; initial capability early 2030s. Progress bullets: ground-test article and component tests; not an operational declaration.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "n05",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Wright-Patterson AFB",
      "title": "Air Force assembles inert Sentinel missile, moving with pace toward flight testing",
      "document_date": "2026-09-14",
      "url": "https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4601501/air-force-assembles-inert-sentinel-missile-moving-with-pace-toward-flight-testi/",
      "locator": "Opening, first-flight design-review paragraph and final paragraph: inert vertical assembly after a four-month campaign, first-flight-specific review, planned 2027 flight testing and early-2030s initial capability.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. September 14 is publication; an exact assembly-completion date is not assigned."
    },
    {
      "id": "n06",
      "publisher": "Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)",
      "title": "FY2027 RDT&E Programs (R-1)",
      "document_date": "2026-04",
      "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/FY2027_r1.pdf",
      "pdf_page": 47,
      "locator": "PDF p. 47 / printed p. 42: 3600F, line 102, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD. FY2025 Actuals; FY2026 discretionary enacted / P.L.119-21 spend plan / total; FY2027 discretionary request. All values in $thousands.",
      "access_note": "Fresh direct PDF retrieval succeeded September 24. Column labels and the entire line were visually inspected. This is a total-obligational-authority exhibit, not an outlay ledger.",
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "r1.pdf",
        "sha256": "1aa8846edb69d4c3a54e03b383b0cabb77f93433162b8139ab8cbb55bcc7882a",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T10:52:29.737811+00:00"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "n07",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense (historical release hosted on war.gov)",
      "title": "Contracts for September 8, 2020",
      "document_date": "2020-09-08",
      "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2340084/source/news_body_link/",
      "locator": "AIR FORCE, first paragraph: FA8219-20-C-0006, $13,293,562,839 cost-plus-incentive-fee award, $85m FY2020 RDT&E obligation, one offer and February 2029 estimated completion.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. Historical award terms, not the current contract balance."
    },
    {
      "id": "n08",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of War",
      "title": "Contracts for June 10, 2026",
      "document_date": "2026-06-10",
      "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4513990/contracts-for-june-10-2026/",
      "locator": "ARMY, Korte Construction paragraph: W912PL-26-C-A005, $113,852,388 firm-fixed-price FTU construction contract; same FY2025 MILCON defense-wide obligation; March 6, 2029 estimated completion.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. The funding fiscal year is not the award year; completion is a forecast."
    },
    {
      "id": "n09",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs",
      "title": "Sentinel Program advances with silo prototype",
      "document_date": "2026-03-27",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4445731/sentinel-program-advances-with-silo-prototype/",
      "locator": "Opening and prototype-purpose paragraphs: groundbreaking for a full-scale silo prototype; new-silo approach rather than refurbishment; anticipated construction learning.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. A prototype groundbreaking is not completed infrastructure or demonstrated cost savings."
    },
    {
      "id": "n10",
      "publisher": "90th Missile Wing Public Affairs / Air Force Global Strike Command",
      "title": "Sentinel utility corridor project commences with groundbreaking event",
      "document_date": "2026-07-23",
      "url": "https://www.afgsc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4557972/sentinel-icbm-programs-utility-corridor-project-commences-with-golden-shovel-gr/",
      "locator": "Opening and photo captions: June 24, 2026 groundbreaking for utility-corridor pilot. July 23 is this mirror's publication label; other official mirrors list July 22.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. Reports construction beginning, not a completed network."
    },
    {
      "id": "n11",
      "publisher": "Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center / Staff Sgt. An Pham",
      "title": "Officials break ground on AETC's Sentinel training unit at Vandenberg SFB",
      "document_date": "2026-09-01",
      "url": "https://www.afnwc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4590790/officials-break-ground-on-aetcs-sentinel-training-unit-at-vandenberg-sfb/",
      "locator": "Opening: August 17 groundbreaking. Closing facility paragraph: opening slated for early 2030s. This is not the March 2029 contract completion forecast in N08.",
      "access_note": "Reviewed the official publisher's indexed full article through web retrieval on September 24, 2026. Direct HTTPS retrieval was blocked; no successful raw-file download is claimed. No source reviewed reconciles contract completion with operational opening; do not treat them as equivalent dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "n12",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office",
      "title": "Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Faces Critical Risks and Opportunities — GAO-26-108755",
      "document_date": "2026-02-18",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108755.pdf",
      "pdf_page": 1,
      "locator": "PDF p. 1: rescinded Milestone B and baselines, at-least-$141bn uncertain estimate, prior March 2028 first-flight plan. P. 2: transition risk-management and extended Minuteman III sustainment findings.",
      "access_note": "Official PDF text reviewed through web retrieval; direct PDF download and screenshots failed. Earlier first-flight scope is clarified by the later annual assessment N03."
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      "event": "System critical design review",
      "original": "2023-07",
      "threshold": "2024-07",
      "pre_review_forecast": "2024-05",
      "latest": "New full-system date not established in this edition. The September 2026 review was specific to first flight.",
      "actual": null,
      "source_ids": [
        "n01",
        "n03",
        "n05"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "milestone-c",
      "event": "Milestone C / low-rate production decision",
      "original": "2026-05",
      "threshold": "2027-05",
      "pre_review_forecast": "2026-01",
      "latest": "TBD in GAO's rebaseline assessment; no achieved production decision established here.",
      "actual": null,
      "source_ids": [
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        "n03"
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    },
    {
      "id": "ioc",
      "event": "Initial operational capability",
      "original": "2029-06",
      "threshold": "2030-06",
      "pre_review_forecast": "2029-05",
      "latest": "Early-2030s initial-capability target; no exact replacement date or IOC declaration established here.",
      "actual": null,
      "source_ids": [
        "n01",
        "n04",
        "n05"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frp",
      "event": "Full-rate production decision",
      "original": "2029-09",
      "threshold": "2030-09",
      "pre_review_forecast": "2029-07",
      "latest": "TBD in GAO's rebaseline assessment; not inferred from early-2030s initial capability.",
      "actual": null,
      "source_ids": [
        "n01",
        "n03"
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      "category": "RDT&E",
      "baseline": 22978,
      "pre_review": 28893.6,
      "then_year": 36001,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "constant FY2020 dollars for baseline/pre_review; then-year dollars for then_year",
      "source_id": "n01"
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    {
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      "pre_review": 57665.4,
      "then_year": 86355,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "constant FY2020 dollars for baseline/pre_review; then-year dollars for then_year",
      "source_id": "n01"
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    {
      "category": "Military construction",
      "baseline": 6904.3,
      "pre_review": 18950.1,
      "then_year": 28705,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "constant FY2020 dollars for baseline/pre_review; then-year dollars for then_year",
      "source_id": "n01"
    },
    {
      "category": "Acquisition O&M",
      "baseline": 0,
      "pre_review": 917.8,
      "then_year": 1352,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "constant FY2020 dollars for baseline/pre_review; then-year dollars for then_year",
      "source_id": "n01"
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  "acquisition_estimate_comparison": {
    "baseline_date": "2020-09-04",
    "comparison_label": "PB2025 estimate in Dec2023-labeled MSAR, before July2024 recertification",
    "units": "USD million",
    "price_basis": "constant FY2020",
    "baseline": 77740.7,
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      "date": "2024-07-08",
      "amount_usd_billion": 140.9,
      "reported_growth_percent": 81,
      "price_basis": null,
      "basis_note": "Not explicitly stated in the release. Reported comparison, not independently harmonized or substituted for a signed baseline.",
      "source_id": "n02"
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      "date": "2026-01",
      "amount_usd_billion": null,
      "status": "Current cost and schedule under review",
      "source_id": "n03"
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      "stage": "Source-reported FY2025 Actuals (TOA)",
      "note": "R-1 historical funding position; not cash disbursed.",
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year fiscal dollars",
      "scope": "3600F, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD only",
      "source_id": "n06"
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    {
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      "stage": "Discretionary enacted",
      "note": "Base-budget funding position shown in the April 2026 exhibit.",
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year fiscal dollars",
      "scope": "3600F, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD only",
      "source_id": "n06"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "amount": 2189,
      "stage": "P.L.119-21 spend plan",
      "note": "Mandatory allocation component, not an obligation or outlay.",
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year fiscal dollars",
      "scope": "3600F, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD only",
      "source_id": "n06"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "amount": 4805.352,
      "stage": "Displayed total",
      "note": "Sum of the preceding two FY2026 components; do not add it to them again.",
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year fiscal dollars",
      "scope": "3600F, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD only",
      "source_id": "n06"
    },
    {
      "fiscal_year": 2027,
      "amount": 4521.37,
      "stage": "Request",
      "note": "Proposed discretionary funding; not enacted funding or contract value.",
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year fiscal dollars",
      "scope": "3600F, PE 0605238F, Ground Based Strategic Deterrent EMD only",
      "source_id": "n06"
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  ],
  "contracts": [
    {
      "date": "2020-09-08",
      "title": "Northrop Grumman EMD award",
      "piid": "FA8219-20-C-0006",
      "modification": null,
      "value": 13293562839,
      "value_stage": "Award value",
      "obligation_at_award": 85000000,
      "funding_fiscal_year": 2020,
      "contract_type": "Cost-plus-incentive-fee",
      "forecast_completion": "2029-02",
      "source_id": "n07",
      "note": "Development award, not total program cost; February 2029 was the award's completion estimate, not IOC."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-06-10",
      "title": "Korte Construction formal training unit",
      "piid": "W912PL-26-C-A005",
      "modification": null,
      "value": 113852388,
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      "obligation_at_award": 113852388,
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      "contract_type": "Firm-fixed-price",
      "forecast_completion": "2029-03-06",
      "source_id": "n08",
      "note": "Facility construction. Later Air Force reporting places facility opening in the early 2030s; scope/dates are not reconciled here."
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-n01",
      "date": "2020-09",
      "status": "baseline",
      "category": "Baseline",
      "title": "Original development commitment",
      "text": "The September 2020 baseline set June 2029 IOC and a June 2030 threshold. Month precision avoids conflicting day fields in later reports.",
      "source_id": "n01"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n02",
      "date": "2020-09-08",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Contract",
      "title": "Development contract awarded",
      "text": "$13.293562839bn award; $85m obligated at award. Neither is total lifetime program spending.",
      "source_id": "n07"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n03",
      "date": "2023-12-11",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Reset",
      "title": "Program deviation report signed",
      "text": "Cost and schedule deviations were formally reported. The original baseline remained visible.",
      "source_id": "n01"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n04",
      "date": "2024-01-18",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Reset",
      "title": "Critical cost breach notified to Congress",
      "text": "The notification triggered the review. Its initial percentages differ slightly from the later budget-index-adjusted figures.",
      "source_id": "n01"
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    {
      "id": "event-n05",
      "date": "2024-07-08",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Reset",
      "title": "Continuation certified; Milestone B rescinded",
      "text": "DoD announced the continuation decision and ordered restructuring. Certification was not delivery or approval of a final replacement baseline.",
      "source_id": "n02"
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    {
      "id": "event-n06",
      "date": "2026-02-17",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Plan",
      "title": "Air Force publishes reset targets",
      "text": "End-2026 Milestone B and early-2030s initial capability remain announced plans, not achieved milestones.",
      "source_id": "n04"
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    {
      "id": "event-n07",
      "date": "2026-03-27",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Construction",
      "title": "Silo prototype groundbreaking reported",
      "text": "Reported by this publication date; no exact groundbreaking day is assigned. Prototype work does not establish completed operational facilities.",
      "source_id": "n09"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n08",
      "date": "2026-06-10",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Contract",
      "title": "Training facility contract awarded",
      "text": "$113.852388m award and reported obligation for a facility, not an operational missile.",
      "source_id": "n08"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n09",
      "date": "2026-06-24",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Construction",
      "title": "Utility-corridor pilot breaks ground",
      "text": "Event reported in July; construction beginning is not network completion.",
      "source_id": "n10"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n10",
      "date": "2026-07-02",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Oversight",
      "title": "GAO explains the changed flight-test plan",
      "text": "The 2027 pad-based target and FY2030 silo-based target are different test scopes. This is the report's publication date.",
      "source_id": "n03"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n11",
      "date": "2026-08-17",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Construction",
      "title": "Training-unit groundbreaking",
      "text": "September 1 reporting describes an August 17 event and an early-2030s facility opening target.",
      "source_id": "n11"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n12",
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "status": "actual",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "Inert assembly milestone reported",
      "text": "The Air Force reports completed inert vertical assembly and a first-flight-specific review. No flight or IOC is established by this receipt.",
      "source_id": "n05"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n13",
      "date": "End 2026",
      "status": "forecast",
      "category": "Plan",
      "title": "New Milestone B target",
      "text": "A planned decision, not a signed decision established in this edition.",
      "source_id": "n04"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n14",
      "date": "2027",
      "status": "forecast",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "Pad-based first-flight target",
      "text": "Different scope from the previously described silo-based first flight; not an achieved flight.",
      "source_id": "n03"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n15",
      "date": "FY2030 Q3",
      "status": "forecast",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "Silo-based first-flight target",
      "text": "April–June 2030 in the U.S. fiscal calendar; not the early-2030s initial-capability target.",
      "source_id": "n03"
    },
    {
      "id": "event-n16",
      "date": "Early 2030s",
      "status": "forecast",
      "category": "Plan",
      "title": "Initial-capability target",
      "text": "Broad planning window; do not assign a precise replacement IOC date or month-delay statistic.",
      "source_id": "n05"
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  "outcomes": [
    {
      "label": "Prototype construction",
      "date": "2026-03-27",
      "result": "Silo-prototype groundbreaking reported by the Air Force.",
      "limit": "Not a completed silo, completed force or verified cost saving.",
      "source_id": "n09"
    },
    {
      "label": "Utility-corridor pilot",
      "date": "2026-06-24",
      "result": "Groundbreaking reported for the construction pilot.",
      "limit": "Not a completed operational communications network.",
      "source_id": "n10"
    },
    {
      "label": "Formal training unit",
      "date": "2026-08-17",
      "result": "Groundbreaking documented; contractor named in the official release.",
      "limit": "Not an opened facility or trained force; opening remains forecast.",
      "source_id": "n11"
    },
    {
      "label": "Inert integration",
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "result": "Completed inert assembly and first-flight-specific design review reported by this publication date.",
      "limit": "Not a flight, full-system operational evaluation, or initial operational capability.",
      "source_id": "n05"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "nc01",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "Original IOC objective June 2029 and threshold June 2030; other baseline milestones preserved.",
      "source_ids": [
        "n01"
      ],
      "locator": "p.11"
    },
    {
      "id": "nc02",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "2020 Milestone B day fields conflict; report history gives Sept4, schedule table Sept1; this edition uses month precision.",
      "source_ids": [
        "n01",
        "n03"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp.9,11; GAO p.91 development-start labeling."
    },
    {
      "id": "nc03",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "July 2024 continuation certification rescinded Milestone B; a new decision remains a target in reviewed 2026 sources.",
      "source_ids": [
        "n02",
        "n03",
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