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No Nunn-McCurdy Breach on CH-47F Block II ‘To My Knowledge,’ McCarthy Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, March 15th, 2019

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No Nunn-McCurdy Breach on CH-47F Block II ‘To My Knowledge,’ McCarthy Says

A CH-47F Chinook helicopter with 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade maneuvers to pick up an M119A3 howitzer during sling load operations on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, May 4. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army

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…

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