House Armed Services Committee seeks to add $1B for Army aviation

By Courtney McBride / April 25, 2016 at 12:37 PM
The House Armed Services Committee is poised to restore more than $1 billion in funding to Army aviation, closely following the service's unfunded requirements list. The chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, obtained by Inside Defense and slated for presentation to the full committee on April 27, incorporates numerous elements that saw funding reductions under the Army's Aviation Restructure Initiative. The draft signals legislative support for the recommendations of the National Commission on the Future...

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