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DARPA Award Options To Liberty Lifter Seaplane Designers

Friday, July 28th, 2023

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DARPA Award Options To Liberty Lifter Seaplane Designers

Artist concept of Aurora Flight Sciences’ Liberty Lifter seaplane program. (Image: Boeing Aurora Flight Sciences)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week awarded General Atomics and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences modifications to exercise option one of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane X-Plane program. This July 27 awards amount to $21.5 million for General Atomics, adding to the previously awarded $8 million for a total contract face value of $29.5 million. Aurora Flight Sciences won a $19.5 million modification on top of the almost $6 million earlier award for a total of $25 million. Both…

Congress

Wicker Wants Legislation On DoD’s Equity Investments In Minerals Supply Chain

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Congress

“Not Sure How They Get To Where They Wanna Be,” Calvert Says of $1.5 Trillion Defense Topline Proposal

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Congress

Path Uncertain For $1.5 Trillion FY ‘27 Defense Topline After Trump Casts Doubt On Second Reconciliation Bill

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Congress

Senate Budget Dems Push For Defense Reconciliation Spending Details, Cite ‘Slush Fund’ Concerns

Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee have raised “significant concern” with the Pentagon’s move to classify reconciliation spending plans, urging the department to provide more public details on how the […]