
DAYTON, Ohio--The U.S. Air Force in the last few months awarded classified contracts to five vendors--a mix of traditional defense companies and non-marquee ones--for the autonomy piece of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), service leaders said here on July 29 in a forum with reporters during the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's (AFLCMC) annual Life Cycle Industry Days' gathering of Air Force and industry leaders. Col. Timothy Helfrich, the director of AFLCMC's Agile Development Office (ADO) and the senior…