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Boeing Gets Order for Four More Special Ops Chinooks

Friday, November 2nd, 2018

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Boeing Gets Order for Four More Special Ops Chinooks

First New Build Army SOAR MH-47G, produced by Boeing Photo: Defense Daily

Boeing [BA] on Nov. 2 received a $43 million boost to a contract it already holds to build MH-47Gs for U.S. Special Operations Command.The $42.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification is for four new build MH-47G heavylift aircraft.“The contract modification satisfies an urgent need to sustain U.S. Special Operations Forces heavy assault, rotary wing aircrafts,” according to a U.S. Defense Department statement announcing the award. The contract modification is funded with fiscal 2018 U.S. Army aircraft procurement funds.The majority of the work…

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