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  • DARPA Picks Teams for Lifter Seaplane Demonstrator Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks Teams for Lifter Seaplane Demonstrator Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two teams to help in the first stage of development of a full-scale, wing-in-ground lifter seaplane demonstrator. DARPA said Wednesday the team of General Atomics and Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the group consisting of Aurora Flight Sciences, Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft will join the agency and the Department of […] More

  • General Atomics Lands DARPA Contract for Heavy-Lift Seaplane Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands DARPA Contract for Heavy-Lift Seaplane Initiative

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the development of an aircraft capable of sustained seaborne strategic and tactical lift. The Defense Department said Friday the $8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award is in support of DARPA’s Liberty Lifter program. The program’s focus is on designing, building and […] More