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House Panel Wants to Withhold CH-53K Funds Until Navy Reports on Progress

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

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House Panel Wants to Withhold CH-53K Funds Until Navy Reports on Progress

The CH-53K King Stallion arrives at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River on June 30, 2017. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy. (PRNewsfoto/Lockheed Martin)

U.S. House lawmakers want limitations placed on CH-53K King Stallion procurement spending until the Secretary of the Navy can report on the heavylift helicopter’s progress. In a summary of its mark of the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces calls for withholding half of 53K procurement spending until after the Navy’s top civilian delivers the first of what will then become quarterly reports on the program. The mark summary…

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