
NASHVILLE--Boeing [BA] executives are in discussions on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon to sustain the CH-47F Block II upgrade program. The Army's fiscal 2020 budget proposal funds the purchase of nine Special Operations Command MH-47G Chinooks, and the service plans to buy only that Block II variant, not the CH-47F Block II, in the out years. The service had scheduled CH-47F, Block II production to begin in fiscal 2021. The Army had planned to upgrade 542 Chinooks to Block…