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MH-47 Chinook
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Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $224.3M |
| FY25 | $147.0M |
| FY26 | $156.9M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $130.5M | $146.4M | $224.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $146.4M | $149.9M | $147.0M | |
| Request | – | – | $149.9M | $157.4M | $156.9M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $149.9M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $224.3M as actual total obligation authority — $74.4M above the request. 224.3 − 149.9 = 74.4 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — MH-47 CHINOOK
The United States Special Operations Command through the Army Special Operations Aviation (ARSOA) requires a long-term, capable and reliable Special Operations Forces (SOF) heavy assault fleet in order to provide organic worldwide strategic Rotary Wing operations capable of rapid deployment, operations and long range penetration in contested or anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments in support of Multi-Domain Operations. ARSOA is authorized 69 highly specialized MH-47G Chinook aircraft with legacy airframes of sheet metal construction. Four of the sheet metal aircraft have been lost in combat or pre-deployment training. Operational availability continues to be affected by increased maintenance actions and cost caused by high operational tempo and continuous combat operations within the Special Operations Aviation flight spectrum. Aging airframe fatigue and corrosion issues have necessitated replacement of the remaining MH-47G legacy sheet metal airframes with newly machined airframes which incorporate emerging technologies to maintain mission effectiveness. Eight legacy machined airframes also require a retrofit to incorporate emerging technologies and improvements in machined airframe engineering, while maintaining mission effectiveness and performance across the entire MH-47G BLK II fleet. Army procurement funds are provided to cover common production, labor, and long lead material costs and are found in the Aircraft Procurement, Army Line Item 6775A05101 / CH-47 Helicopter budget exhibit. Note: Procurement quantities increased from four to five in FY 2025 and in FY 2026. This increase is a result of successful negotiation with the aircraft contractor and extension of FY 2024 pricing into FY 2025, and subsequent lowering of estimated airframe costs in FY 2026.
Justification
Justification — MH-47 CHINOOK
FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds the manufacture of five newly built machined airframes incorporating emerging technologies to maintain mission effectiveness and address aging airframe structural fatigue and corrosion issues. Funds Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)/Special Operations-peculiar mission kits, block modifications, production engineering, publications, and program management. Funds modifications to address emerging threats, safety concerns, reliability and maintainability issues, and improved capabilities. FY 2025 to FY 2026 funding increase/decrease: Government Furnished Equipment: $2.152 million increase due to replacement of unserviceable salvaged components needed to support the production line Block Modifications: $2.170 million increase due to increases in labor and materiel to incorporate advanced flight controls into previously fielded aircraft Production Engineering: $2.389 million increase due to engineering and qualification of advanced flight controls into previously fielded aircraft Publications: $1.106 million increase due to maintenance manual and flight publication updates to incorporate advanced flight controls into previously fielded aircraft This P-1 Line Item received FY 2024 Congressional Add funding ($74.400 million) for a SOCOM operational loss that occurred in FY 2023.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY24 Actuals | $224.3M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY25 Enacted | $147.0M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY26 Disc. Request | $156.9M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY26 Total | $156.9M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $1.44B | $224.3M | $147.0M | $156.9M | $156.9M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| PA-05 | $517.2M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224120F0020 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not MH-47 Chinook. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1143
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1111
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1158
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.