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Air Force, SOCOM Exploring Light-Attack Aircraft Technologies

By Marc Selinger

Friday, August 4th, 2017

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Air Force, SOCOM Exploring Light-Attack Aircraft Technologies

Embraer's A-29 Super Tucano for Afghanistan. Photo: Embraer.

The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) are partnering to explore technologies for a potential light-attack aircraft for special operations forces (SOF).The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center plans to release a broad agency announcement to solicit information on “technologies relevant to a potential future SOF light-attack mission and/or emerging light-attack platforms,” according to a “Light Attack Support for Special Operations (LASSO)” notice posted July 28 on FedBizOps.The effort is separate from the light-attack experiment that the Air…

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