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Boeing, Partners End 2018 With Billion-Dollar Rotorcraft Work Windfall

Friday, January 4th, 2019

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Boeing, Partners End 2018 With Billion-Dollar Rotorcraft Work Windfall

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

Atop winning several of the largest and most contentious military acquisition competitions of 2018, Boeing [BA] in the month of December alone took home a share of nearly $2 billion in rotorcraft contracts from the U.S. Defense Department, much of it in conjunction with joint-venture partners. Boeing was selected in 2018 to build both the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer replacement competition and the Navy’s MQ-25 aerial refueling drone — work which Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg estimated at $60 billion…

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]

HASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy

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Congress

Gaps In Army’s Tactical Counter-Drone Capabilities Remain Concern Of HASC

A draft defense policy bill released this week says the Army is fielding counter-drone capabilities for defense of fixed sites and maneuver forces but suggests that troops at the lowest […]

Army

HASC Wants Closer Look At Army’s SBMC Program, Cites Avoiding Past IVAS Missteps

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