The Army is executing a multiyear procurement contract for H-60M utility helicopters that obligates the government to buy 51 fewer helicopters than the service proposed to Congress when it sought authorization for a five-year deal, offsetting the cuts in part with foreign military sales. The multiyear deal -- the ninth such Black Hawk block buy, dubbed Multiyear Procurement IX -- was awarded to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, on June 30. It requires that the Army buy no more than...
