The production of new VH-71 presidential helicopters will not be moved overseas, Navy Secretary Donald Winter said today. InsideDefense.com 's March 22 report that the Navy was considering the idea sparked a furor on Capitol Hill. Service officials mulled the idea as a way to cut risk in the program's cost and schedule. At a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing today, Winter downplayed the alternative production plan, saying it was only discussed at a very low level in the VH-71...
