General Atomics’ platform is now known as the FQ-42A Vengeance, while Anduril’s has been officially designated the FQ-44A Fury, SECAF Troy Meink said Monday.

The service tapped five vendors for the effort: Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Radiant Industries and Westinghouse Government Services.

The Command and Control Enclave (C2E) program is another new effort under development for the Air Force's robotic wingman platforms.

“We have another approximately 10 months left of our concept-refinement contract, where we would expect to have the refined attributes as we did before, as well as…

The Air Force has also selected Anduril, Shield AI and Collins Aerospace to compete for the contract to serve as CCA Increment 1's primary mission autonomy software…

The first delivery under the Andromeda contract vehicle will be for the RG-XX constellation.

If approved by lawmakers, the Air Force's budget request would kick off procurement of CCA Increment 1.

The service recently started flying Anduril's YFQ-44A prototype with AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles attached to it.

General Atomics and Anduril are working with Collins Aerospace and Shield AI, respectively, to integrate mission autonomy software onto their CCA prototypes and conduct semi-autonomous flights.

The Marines will use General Atomics’ YFQ-42A aircraft to evaluate how the service’s future loyal wingman drones will integrate with and fly alongside crewed fighter jets.