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Army

MD Helicopters Not Giving Up On FARA Bid, Chief Executive Says

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, April 18th, 2019

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MD Helicopters Not Giving Up On FARA Bid, Chief Executive Says

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NASHVILLE--While the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has turned down MD Helicopters' protest of what the company called its exclusion from the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, Lynn Tilton, the company's chief executive, said that the company is not out of the FARA competition--by a long shot. "I assure you that I'm not done yet," she said on Apr. 16 during an interview at the Army Aviation Association of America's annual conference. In its decision, the GAO did not…

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