Marines prepare to buy out program of record on VH-92A helicopter

By Justin Katz / April 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM
The Marine Corps is in contract negotiations to buy the last 17 VH-92A presidential helicopters from Sikorsky in the mid-2019 time frame contingent on that aircraft reaching milestone C, according to the program manager. The contract will include a base award of six aircraft and two options: an additional six aircraft and an additional five aircraft, Col. Eric Ropella, VH-92A program manager, told reporters April 9 at the Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, MD. The Navy is in the "early...

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