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DoD Narrows Presidential Helo Buy To 17 Possible ‘Program Approaches’

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic 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 said last week. 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,…

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