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Army

Conference Authorizers Give Nod To Multiyear CH-47 Chinook Procurement

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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The Boeing [BA] CH-47 Chinook helicopter program would benefit from congressional authority for multiyear procurement authority and D-to F-model conversion recommended in the Conference Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. "It provides to the government, the Army and the taxpayers a significant benefit in the savings they receive basing procurement on five years worth of Chinooks rather than year-by-year procurement," Jack Dougherty, director, Boeing H-47 programs, said in a recent interview with sister publication Defense…

Space

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