Citing concerns that federal defense contractors can’t handle the strain of simultaneous production lines, the Trump administration reportedly will shelve the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter jet in favor of the Air Force’s counterpart, the F-47.

The Navy project, which has been shrouded in secrecy, has been in limbo for months.

Reuters reported in March that an F/A-XX contract announcement was imminent after news that Boeing had won the F-47 contract, but it never happened.

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