
In another curious case of industry timing, Boeing [BA] said on Apr. 29 that the U.S. Air Force had awarded the company a $178 million contract for seven MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopters for ICBM missile field protection to lift the total on contract to 26. A day later, an Air Force fiscal 2025 budget hearing before the House Appropriations Committee's defense panel (HAC-D) revealed that the MH-139, like the next generation Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM, has breached Nunn-McCurdy…