The Defense Department has come up with 17 potential "types and mixes" of platforms for a new Presidential Helicopter acquisition effort that could be launched as early as next spring, the department's top weapons buyer recently said. The 17 options--narrowed from 48 that the Pentagon had been examining--are "the intermediate number of alternative program approaches that we identified--different types of helicopters and different mixes of helicopters," Ashton Carter, the under secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, told reporters at the…
DoD Narrows Presidential Helo Buy To 17 Possible ‘Program Approaches’
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