She Never Flew: Concepts from the X-44 Manta may have influenced the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is developing a sixth-generation fighter to replace the F-22. ...

Diving into the autonomous submarine race, DARPA has awarded contracts to three companies as part of its Manta Ray Program. Intended to support a new generation of long-duration, long-range Unmanned ...

DARPA has awarded Phase 2 contracts in its Manta Ray program, which aims to build a series of underwater drones capable of taking on long-range, long-endurance, autonomous ocean missions without any ...

Key Points and Summary - A "paradigm-changing" 1999 concept, the Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA, is identified as the spiritual predecessor to today's 6th-generation fighters. -The X-44 was envisioned as ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded ...