Boeing Awarded DARPA Contract to Develop Ultra-Long-Endurance Aircraft Technologies
ST. LOUIS, April 21, 2008 -- Boeing has received a $3.8 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract for Phase 1 of the Vulture program. Vulture is an ultra-long-endurance aircraft that could stay aloft for several years and serve as a pseudo-satellite system. The yearlong Phase 1 covers conceptual system definition, and formal reliability and mission success analysis, concluding with a System Requirements Review. It also requires conceptual designs for sub- and full-scale demonstrators.
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Boeing Advanced Systems
office: (314) 234-6447
mobile: (314) 707-8891
chris.d.haddox@boeing.com