The Pentagon's independent operational test and evaluation office has warned the Navy its CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter is unlikely to meet the service's goal of declaring initial operational capability in December 2019, becoming the second office to do so. In a director of operational test and evaluation report published Jan. 24, the office said the flight testing schedule was 10 percent complete as of Sept. 17 and "continues to slip due to technical problems discovered during testing." "Pressure is increasing to...
