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Reliability Issues Continue To Delay Navy’s AMCM OPEVAL For MH-60S

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein Issues with the Navy's MH-60S Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) system has led to a two-year delay in the program and landed the effort on the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) for this reporting period. But the Navy points out that the Sikorsky [UTX] MH-60S, or Sierra, is working just fine. Roughly 120 are deployed conducting missions on a daily basis, Cmdr. Spencer Crispell, MH-60S integrated product team co-lead, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. "We have…

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