The Air Force awarded Boeing the contract to produce the service’s new combat search and rescue aircraft because the HH-47 offers the best value and fast delivery, said Sue Payton, the Air Force’s new acquisition chief. Payton told reporters at the Pentagon late last week that Boeing promised to deliver the platform “several months earlier” than the other two CSAR-X competitors. The deal struck with Boeing means the service will get the first production helicopter sometime in 2011. As to best value, Payton said that parameter reflected mission capability as it relates to cost and schedule.” She added, “What was proposed by Boeing met that better than any other proposal.”
The Defense Department hasn’t seen an increase in domestic violence reports among military families since the new coronavirus crisis began, despite the COVID-19 pandemic reportedly causing a spike in such activity across the globe, the head of the Pentagon’s Office of Military Family Readiness Policy told reporters Oct. 29. However,…