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ACC Commander Says He Expects NGAD Choice This Year

ACC Commander Says He Expects NGAD Choice This Year
ACC commander Gen. Ken Wilsbach; Col. Nicholas Pederson, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing commander; Chief Master Sgt. David Wolfe, ACC command chief, and Chief Master Sgt. Cory L. Shipp, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing command chief, walk on the flight line at Creech AFB, Nev. on March 4 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth "Cruiser" Wilsbach, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), said on July 10 that he still expects the service to make a Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth generation manned fighter down select this year. "I do expect it to be this year," he said of the down select in response to a question during a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' virtual forum. Wilsbach assumed the reins of ACC in February after serving as the…

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