There are lots of options available on a Gulfstream 550 but Boeing intends to make the flight deck crew one of them. Lacking a suitable platform of its own, the Chicago-based company has purchased one of the $43 million state-of-the-art bizjets to turn it into a drone for maritime surveillance. If its successful, Boeing could win a $4 billion contract to build the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program.
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