The Defense Department could launch a new cutting-edge rotorcraft-design effort despite current fiscal challenges that would prevent procurement for the foreseeable future, Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said today. "In some cases, we'll start things and do some development even if I don't know that I can take that into production and fully field it under the current budget levels," he told reporters after a speech at the annual Common Defense conference at the National Press Club. "I'm thinking about...
