The Pentagon yesterday awarded the Boeing Sikorsky Comanche Team a $3.2 billion contract for the helicopter program's engineering and manufacturing development phase. The joint venture will receive $147.5 million as the first increment of the contract, according to a June 1 Defense Department statement. The RAH-66 Comanche has long been the Army's No. 1 modernization priority, but funding the program has never been easy. Restructured several times, Comanche's first fielding date of 2007 is more than a decade past the...
