Boeing has been awarded a 9.4 million contract modification to continue to refine its design of the experimental Phantom Swift X-Plane, according to a Department of Defense (DoD) announcement on August 26.
The DoD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded the funds for a 16-month option on an existing 7-month base contract.
According to IHS Jane’s 360, the DoD said,
Boeing will continue to refine their design of the [VTOL] experimental aircraft, bringing it to a preliminary design review level. Specifically, Boeing will complete the following milestones: system definition review; interim progress review; and preliminary design review.
The Phantom Swift X-Plane is an experimental plane that would be able to take-off and land vertically.
Most of the work on the modifications to the plane will be performed at Boeing’s Ridley Park facility in Pennsylvania.
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