MH-47 Chinook

SOCOMProcurementPartial Reconciliation0610MH47

What it is

MH-47 Chinook (0610MH47) is a SOCOM procurement line funded in the Procurement, Defense-Wide account.

What changed

+$9.93M FY25→26 P-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$224.3MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$147.0MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$156.9MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

+$9.93MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
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

5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
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

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →