DRONE WINNER: When it came time to choose the winner of the Navy’s big carrier-based drone tanker competition, it wasn’t the famous Predator-maker General Atomics, or F-35-maker Lockheed Martin that took the gold. It was Boeing’s Stingray, nabbing an $805 million contract to design and deliver four MQ-25A aerial refuelers to be operational by 2024.

HISTORY MAKER: It means that for the first time, unmanned aircraft will be in the mix with other high-intensity planes that use catapults to slingshot off carrier decks and land by snagging arresting gear with their tailhooks.