"I spent years struggling to overcome acquisition malpractice, and we're still struggling with that to some degree,” Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall told reporters.

SASC Chairman Sen. Jack Reed said fielding these types of uncrewed systems "would compound our missile problem."

“The problem that I have is the amount of time I have to wait for Congress to act,” Kendall told reporters during a media roundtable at the…

The Navy is pursuing an agreement with the Air Force that would allow the services to control each other’s unmanned fighter jets, according to the Navy’s director…

The Air Force’s forthcoming unmanned “collaborative combat aircraft” must be able to operate as loyal wingmen “tethered” to manned fighter jets, as well as fly “untethered” with…

The Royal Australian Air Force's Ghost Bat drone is expected to enter the fleet by 2025.

The funding would go toward three lines of effort: platform development, autonomy development, and standing up an “experimental operations unit” to explore operating concepts.

The Biden administration proposes increasing the DOD's total discretionary budget authority to $842 billion, a 3.2% boost from the 2023 enacted level.

This figure was derived from assuming two CCAs each for 200 NGAD platforms and an additional two for each of 300 F-35s, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall…