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Navy To Issue Draft RFP For MQ-25 Carrier Drone In Spring

By Marc Selinger

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

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Navy To Issue Draft RFP For MQ-25 Carrier Drone In Spring

The X-47B landing on a carrier. Photo: Navy

The Navy says it expects to release a draft request for proposals (RFP) this spring for its future MQ-25 carrier-based unmanned aircraft.A final RFP will follow in the summer, and a development contract will be awarded to one company in 2018, said Capt. Beau Duarte, the Navy’s MQ-25 program manager.Four companies – Boeing [BA], General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] – received one-year contracts last fall to refine concepts for the drone. Those…

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