USAF delays search-and-rescue helicopter contest

U.S. Air Force has decided not to select the winner of the combat search and rescue helicopter program in the last quarter of fiscal 2013.

Citing more time required to complete an independent cost estimate and the impact of government furlough, it will make the decision in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014.

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