Huey replacement contract includes $408M for R&D, $1.9B for procurement

By Jason Sherman / October 18, 2018 at 4:11 PM
The Air Force's contract with Boeing to develop and field a new MH-139 utility helicopter fleet allocates $408 million for development and $1.9 billion for procurement, a price tag that is roughly half the estimated total program cost the service forecasted in budget documents for the UH-1N Huey replacement program earlier this year. Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Hope Cronin provided new details of the new MH-139 contract, noting the $2.3 billion contract award to Boeing -- which teamed with Italian...

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