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Air Force

Northrop Grumman, AgustaWestland To Team For CRH, Marine One Competitions

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Northrop Grumman [NOC] and AgustaWestland signed a teaming agreement to compete for both the Air Force's Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program and the Navy's new Marine One presidential helicopter program, according to a Northrop Grumman statement. Northrop Grumman will offer a helicopter based on the AW101 platform and built in the United States. Earlier this year, Sikorsky [UTX] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said they were planning to bid a modified UH-60M for Air Force's CRH program (Defense Daily,…

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