Weird wings dusted off again!

Found it at tank-net.org at http://63.99.108.76/forums/index.php?showtopic=15331,
verifiable link at http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/19/1470791.htm :

NORTHROP AWARDED CONTRACT FOR DEVELOP A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

(InfoProd Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Western Region, El Segundo, Calif., was awarded on March 16, 2006, a $3,800,325 increment of a $10,295,593 other transaction for prototypes agreement to develop a conceptual and preliminary design of an experimental aircraft to demonstrate the feasibility of a supersonic, tailless, oblique flying wing aircraft. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. and will be completed in November 2007. Funds will not expire at the end of this fiscal year. A Federal Business Opportunities solicitation was issued on Aug. 19, 2005, and 3 proposals were received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity (HR0011-06-9-0005).

Now while this is obviously a breadcrumb contract (in Pentagon-budgeteering, this amount of money probably buys an exotic text marker pen and a neat coffee mug), the oblique wing is something we haven’t heard of for a long time.

As a reminder, NASA’s AD-1 oblique wing test vehicle.