Boeing, a separate Bell-Boeing team as well as a Northrop Grumman-AgustaWestland team have dropped out of the competition for the VXX Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program, leaving a Sikorsky-Lockheed Martin joint venture as the sole bidder, the companies confirmed to Inside the Navy today. "Boeing will not submit a bid for the U.S. Navy's VXX Presidential Helicopter program," the company said in a statement today. "While both the Boeing H-47 Chinook and Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey are often used to...
