Air Force kicks off competition for Skyborg IDIQ contract offering $400M awards

By Sara Sirota / May 15, 2020 at 5:29 PM
The Air Force today launched a competition for industry to participate in prototyping and experimentation for the Skyborg manned-unmanned teaming program. The competition is for an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with multiple awards, each valued at $400 million. "Skyborg is a transferable suite of autonomous capabilities paired with teamed, autonomous, low-cost platforms to enable expeditionary operations that can generate massed combat power with minimal logistical footprints; delivering a future Air Force which can deter, blunt and defeat peer adversaries," a broad...

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