The House panel that controls defense spending rejected an Army proposal to stop production of Boeing Co.’s Chinook helicopters and shift the money into future vertical-lift programs in the service’s modernization plan.
Instead, the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee, which is completing its proposed fiscal 2020 defense spending bill, added $28 million in advance procurement funds for continued production of the Chinook CH-47 Block II and directed the service to restore more than $900 million that would have been been shifted through 2024, according to a draft of the panel’s report obtained by Bloomberg Government.
