Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said a down-select is expected in the coming months.

The services want their respective robotic wingmen to have common aircraft architecture, communications links, autonomy architecture and ground-control segments, Brig. Gen. Dale White told reporters.

Gen. Mark Kelly said that depending on cost and size, some CCA drones will have to be adaptable for a variety of missions that could change day…

The Air Force is planning to release an "integrated aerial network roadmap" sometime in the fall outlining its strategy, an official told DefenseScoop.

"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.

The service plans to award a contract for the Next-Generation Air Dominance program in 2024, it announced Thursday.

“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…

In fiscal 2024-2028, the service intends to invest about $5.8 billion in R&D for collaborative combat aircraft, plus another $400 million or so for an experimental operations…

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

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…