The Pentagon will recommend dramatic changes in the Navy's fiscal year 2010 budget, including the cancellation of the VH-71 presidential helicopter program and a proposal to build all three DDG-1000 destroyers at General Dynamics' Bath Irons Works shipyard in Maine, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today at a press conference. The VH-71 program, under contract to Lockheed Martin, became a lightning rod over the past year as an example of a program over cost and behind schedule. President Obama called...
