
Will the U.S. Army's planned 10 percent reduction in the service's buy of Boeing [BA] CH-47 Block II upgrades result in a Nunn-McCurdy breach--a unit cost increase of 15 percent or more? The Army says no, and the service does not want to head to Capitol Hill to justify that decision. "It’s always a consideration if it’s a Nunn-McCurdy violation," Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy said on March 14 of reduced-buy decisions. "To my knowledge, we haven’t done that. The last…