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Apache Block III Helicopter On/Ahead of Schedule, Officials Say

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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt FORT WORTH, Texas--The next generation of the Army's multi-mission AH-64D Apache helicopter, the Block III, is progressing as expected, officials from the government and prime contractor Boeing [BA] said. "The next gen Block III is going on or ahead of schedule," Col. Shane Openshaw, Army Apache project manager, said at the Army Aviation Association of America annual conference here last week. There is one issue to be resolved, however, a Nunn-McCurdy critical breach, in which the program…

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