Department of Defense Budget Cuts Stall New Purchases of Helicopters, Finds Frost & Sullivan

Department of Defense Budget Cuts Stall New Purchases of Helicopters, Finds Frost & Sullivan PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Sept. 6, 2012 - Rotary-winged models find sizeable application in irregular warfare, while focus turned on helicopter upgrades and replacement parts MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing wars and nation building activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen have generated significant demand for rotary-winged assets for their diverse mission capabilities. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) lists success in counterinsurgency (COIN), stability, and counterterrorism operations as some of the United States' defense objectives. This can only be achieved by increasing the availability of military helicopters. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.defense.frost.com), Analysis of the DoD Helicopter Market, finds that the helicopter segment will obtain $15.59 billion from the DoD's 2013 budget with the Army forecasted to account for nearly half of this spending. The top 10 market competitors were responsible for a substantial 91.4 percent of market spending in 2011. If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at jeannette.garcia@frost.com, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country.