“This is an extremely powerful capability. It's going to get cheaper and cheaper over time,” Anduril founder Palmer Luckey told reporters.

“We’re thinking that they’re not going to be embedded in current fighter squadrons, but rather they’re going to be their own squadrons,” Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said.

Two vendors are working on prototypes for DIU's Counter NEXT program.

Anduril announced Monday that it landed a $159 million deal for the SBMC program. Rivet announced that it executed a $195 million agreement for the project.

The NGC2 initiative aims to improve how the service passes data to commanders so they can make better and faster decisions on the battlefield.

General Atomics recently began flight testing of its prototype, dubbed the YFQ-42A, at an unnamed location in California.

Anduril and its team of vendors secured a $99.6 million OTA to continue prototyping effort for the Army's Next Generation Command and Control.

Senior defense officials discussed funding for the Air Force's F-47 and CCA programs at a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday.

Menace systems supported Palantir software at recent field events, such as Project Convergence Capstone 5.

The Air Force also announced that the CCA drones will be based at Beale Air Force Base in California.