By Ann Roosevelt The Boeing [BA] CH-47 Chinook helicopter program would benefit from congressional authority for multiyear procurement authority and D-to F-model conversion recommended in the Conference Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. "It provides to the government, the Army and the taxpayers a significant benefit in the savings they receive basing procurement on five years worth of Chinooks rather than year-by-year procurement," Jack Dougherty, director, Boeing H-47 programs, said in an interview with Defense…
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