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Air Force

Roper: Air Force Plans to Finalize NGAD Business Plan This Summer

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, June 9th, 2020

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Roper: Air Force Plans to Finalize NGAD Business Plan This Summer

Concept of a future fighter aircraft for the Air Force by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

The Air Force will soon have a business case to support a novel method to develop next-generation fighter jets more quickly and efficiently, the service’s acquisition czar said June 9. Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Will Roper first shared plans for the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Symposium in September 2019, which is meant to help the service harness new designing and manufacturing technologies that could lead to faster…

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