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DARPA Chooses GA And Aurora Flight Sciences To Design Liberty Lifter Seaplane

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

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DARPA Chooses GA And Aurora Flight Sciences To Design Liberty Lifter Seaplane

Artist impression of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems concept for the DARPA Liberty Lifter seaplane program. (Image: General Atomics via DARPA)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected teams led by General Atomics and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences to develop designs for the Liberty Lifter Seaplane full-scale demonstrator, the agency said Wednesday. This program seeks to demonstrate an improvement in operational capability by designing, building, floating and flying a long-range, low-cost X-Plane capable of strategic and tactical heavy lift. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) is set to work with the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation while Aurora will work with…

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