Classified Bomber Under Consideration

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/NGB122209.xml

The $2-billion question in development of a new bomber is whether a
major black-world demonstration program is already underway, with
Northrop Grumman as the contractor.

This hypothesis makes sense of a series of clues that have appeared
since 2005. In that year, Scott Winship, program manager for Northrop
Grumman's X-47 unmanned combat aircraft system (UCAS), mentioned that
the company—responding to a U.S. Air Force interest in a bigger
version of the then-ongoing Joint UCAS project—had proposed an X-47C
with very long endurance, a 10,000-lb.-plus weapon load and a 172-ft.
wingspan, the same as a B-2.