
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced last week that the Air Force's fiscal 2024 budget would contain plans for 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to be used by the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 and the service's future manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter, but the service's March 13 unclassified fiscal 2024 budget documents contain scant reference to CCA. An Air Force budget overview points to a $522 million request for CCA in fiscal 2024 versus a congressionally appropriated…