Murtha to Navy: Find a Way to Leverage $3.2 Billion Already Spent on VH-71

By Rebekah Gordon / June 3, 2009 at 5:00 AM
The Navy must figure out a way to leverage the $3.2 billion it has already spent in research and development of the canceled VH-71 presidential helicopter, the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee said today, calling it "unacceptable" to do otherwise. "We're still trying to figure out if there's not a way we can use some of this money that we've already spent on research and get some benefit out of this research," Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said at...

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