Aurora now sole designer in Pentagon heavy-lift seaplane effort

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Source: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is now the sole participant in a Pentagon effort to develop a heavy-lift amphibious transport, after a proposed design from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems was eliminated over schedule and technical concerns.

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