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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—As the Air Force moves toward autonomous drones conducting missions with manned aircraft, variables such as cost and affordability, production capacity, capabilities, and how many vendors might initially be part of the robotic air combat platform will come down to finding the best combination of tradeoffs between these in the coming years, Air Force officials said on Wednesday. The higher the price of a solution, the less flexibility there will be in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program,…
