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VH-71 Has Critical Nunn-McCurdy Breach, Navy Tells Congress

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Friday, January 30th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein As expected, the Navy this week submitted paperwork notifying Congress that the VH-71 presidential helicopter has a Nunn-McCurdy breach. Navy Secretary Donald Winter signed off on the document and sent it to lawmakers on Wednesday, Lt. Clayton Doss, a Navy spokesman, told Defense Daily yesterday. "The VH-71 program office estimates a critical Nunn-McCurdy breach to the Program Acquisition Unit Cost (PAUC) in excess of 50 percent as compared to the original baseline estimate as of February 2006,"…

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