House Armed Services Committee chairman's mark restores Chinook funding

By Jaspreet Gill / June 10, 2019 at 9:45 AM
The House Armed Services Committee is looking to restore $28 million in funding for the advanced procurement of the Chinook block II in its chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill. On Wednesday, the full committee will consider $46.2 million be restored to the Army's FY-20 budget for the CH-47 block II aircraft and that the service must begin to remanufacture the block I rotorcraft between fiscal years 2024 and 2028. The move comes after the Senate...

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