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Navy Terminates Contract For VH-71 Presidential Helicopter

The Navy today announced that it will terminate the VH-71 System Development
and Demonstration (SDD) program contract. The announcement follows a
Department of Defense (DoD) decision to cancel the existing presidential
helicopter replacement program.

The VH-71 was intended to replace both the VH-3D and VH-60N aircraft currently
used to conduct presidential support missions.

Navy contract N00019-05-C-0030 and associated work with Lockheed Martin Systems
Integration – Owego (LMSI-O), Owego, N.Y., awarded Jan. 28, 2005, for the SDD of
the VH-71 program, has been terminated for the convenience of the government. 

The under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics issued a
VH-71 program acquisition decision memorandum on May 15, 2009, which directed
the program be cancelled, to include both Increment 1 and Increment 2.