The House Armed Services Committee is joining the latest push to field a replacement for the 1960s-era UH-1N Huey sooner in the committee's mark of the fiscal year 2018 defense policy bill, citing top military officials' comments to illustrate the need for a sole-source contract. The Air Force previously wanted to sole-source a variant of Sikorsky's HH-60 Black Hawk to patrol intercontinental ballistic missile fields, among other missions, but switched to an open competition and is now preparing to release...
