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Air Force

ACC Commander Looks Forward to Rapid CCA Fielding

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

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ACC Commander Looks Forward to Rapid CCA Fielding

U.S. Air Force Capt. Dustin Remmenga, 20th Attack Squadron pilot and executive assistant to the squadron commander, operates an MQ-9 Reaper simulator at Creech AFB, Nev. on Feb. 1 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC) at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., said this week that he believes that the service will field Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) rapidly. "I see that we're gonna get Collaborative Combat Aircraft on the ramp pretty quick, and I think they're gonna be quicker than some of the manned platforms that we've experienced in the last few decades," he told a July 10 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' virtual…

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