Author: Mary-Louise Hoffman|| Date Published: March 4, 2016
Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded an $89.4 million contract to further develop an unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the second and third phases of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s VTOL X-Plane program.
DARPA received three offers for the acquisition program and is obligating $53.4 million in research and development funds at the time of award, the Defense Departmentsaid Thursday.
The agency notes the X-Plane will be built to weigh between 10, 000 and 12, 000 pounds and designed to fly at a speed of up to 460 miles per hour and generate a hover efficiency rate of at least 75 percent.
Boeing (NYSE: BA), Karem Aircraft and Sikorsky participated in the VTOL X-Plane program’s first phase.
Aurora Flight Sciences will perform contract work in Virginia, Indiana, Arizona and California through September 2018.
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Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded an $89.4 million contract to further develop an unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the second and third phases of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s VTOL X-Plane program.
