Boeing awarded $20 billion contract to build Navy's next fighter jet

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The Pentagon announced Tuesday that Boeing won the contract to build the Navy's F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter, worth more than $20 billion. The aircraft will succeed the Super Hornet fleet. Boeing beat Northrop Grumman for the deal; Lockheed Martin had earlier been eliminated from the competition. Boeing is also building the Air Force's F-47. Details of the new jet's design have not been disclosed.

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