President Donald Trump announced Friday that the Air Force is “moving forward” with the plan to acquire the “world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet,” named the F-47. Trump said Boeing beat out Lockheed Martin for the multibillion-dollar contract to build the next-generation fighting aircraft in what was a winner-take-all approach that granted the winner hundreds of

Boeing won a contract March 21 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft for the U.S. Air Force that will spearhead future air wars and throw a lifeline to the company’s struggling military aviation business.