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Navy/USMC

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…

Army

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Army

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