Die Washington Post von heute berichtet:
"Boeing Wins Deal To Build Helicopters, Beating Lockheed - Boeing Co. won a coveted contract yesterday for 141 Air Force search-and-rescue helicopters, a program that could be worth as much as $15 billion, besting rivals Lockheed Martin Corp. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
The helicopters will replace the Air Force's fleet of HH-60 Pave Hawks, which have been used extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Air Force said it went with the low-risk option, choosing Chicago-based Boeing's adaptation of the CH-47 Chinook, which the military has used for more than 50 years. The decision followed a strategy adopted by the government for at least two other high-profile programs in recent months -- a NASA space-vehicle program and a border-security initiative.
"We are not trying to go put the most elegant grand solution" together, Sue C. Payton, the assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, said at a briefing. "We are going out with what we can do that will vastly improve what we have today in HH-60 helicopters.""
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