In the span of two years, Boeing had gone from design review to building and rolling out a prototype, said Don "BD" Gaddis, Boeing's MQ-25 program manager in St. Louis, Mo. Boeing's drone will use a Rolls-Royce engine, which also powers the U.S. Air Force's Global Hawk and Navy's Triton drones. The concept is basically the same plane, though the drone's interior has changed to utilize greater off-the-shelf technology for its secondary mission of surveillance and intelligence-gathering.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 25, 2018 12:00 UTC