Navy Expects VXX Announcement In May

By Lara Seligman / April 9, 2014 at 8:15 PM
The Navy expects to announce the winner of the VXX presidential helicopter competition in May, the program manager said on Wednesday. A Sikorksy-Lockheed Martin team remains the sole bidder for the VXX program, as Boeing, a separate Bell-Boeing team and a Northrop Grumman-AgustaWestland team dropped out of the competition last year. "We are in the final stages of the approval process and the contracting process and we hope to be able to make an announcement in a few weeks," Capt...

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