Congress clashes with Army over purchasing cargo helicopters
By: Jen Judson   3 days ago
WASHINGTON — For the second year in a row, Congress is poised to bolster the CH-47F Chinook Block II program as the Army holds steady on its decision to scale back and only buy the latest variant for special operators.
Both the House and Senate appropriators are injecting cash into the Boeing-manufactured, F-model Chinook program in fiscal 2021 to buy them for the active force after the Army decided in FY20, in order to fund its future fleet of helicopters, that it would only purchase Block II aircraft, designated the “G†model, for Army special operations units.
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel wants to increase the Chinook account by $119 million on top of the Army’s request for $160.7 million for F-model aircraft.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/11/12/congress-poised-to-bolster-cargo-helo-program-as-army-holds-steady-on-decision-to-scale-back/
