Navy awards two contracts for unmanned tanker risk reduction before entering EMD phase

By Lee Hudson / September 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM
The Navy recently awarded two cost-plus fixed-fee contracts for unmanned tanker risk-reduction activities to support concept refinement and requirements generation before entering into the engineering and manufacturing development phase. On Sept. 23, the service awarded a $43.3 million contract to Boeing and a $43.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin for the MQ-25A unmanned carrier aviation air system. "This concept refinement [request for proposals] includes MQ-25A Stingray technical task analysis efforts spanning air vehicle capabilities, carrier suitability and integration, mission systems...

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