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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

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

Army

Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]

Congress

CENTCOM Looking To Lessons Learned From Use Of LUCAS Drones

U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) is looking to lessons learned from its use of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones by Phoenix-based SpektreWorks, according to CENTCOM head Adm. Brad Cooper. […]

Army

Hegseth Says DoD Open To Reviewing Army’s Planned Cuts To Legacy Helicopter Procurement

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told lawmakers the Pentagon is open to reviewing the Army’s planned procurement cuts to its legacy manned aviation fleet. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member […]