F/A-XX fighter (Next Generation Air Dominance)

The U.S. Air Force is nearing an initial postulation of the numbers/ratios of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to accompany the service’s future force presentation construct for the sixth-generation manned Next […]

Increasing fighter capacity through such programs as Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the rapid fielding of the Boeing [BA] E-7 Wedgetail AWACS replacement, and incorporating regular virtual test and training against […]

Five companies–General Electric [GE], Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney [RTX], Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], and Northrop Grumman [NOC]–are receiving contracts under an umbrella, $975 million effort for the prototype […]

This year, General Electric [GE] plans to deliver a report to the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) on how the company could adapt its XA100 engine for the U.S. Marine […]

ST. LOUIS—Boeing [BA] believes its F-15EX could carry and employ drones from conformal tech bays that would take the place of conformal fuel tanks on the plane. The aircraft’s open […]

Navy officials recently said the future F/A-XX aircraft will be the “quarterback” of a carrier-based manned-unmanned aircraft teaming concept in the future aircraft carrier-based Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft […]

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the commander of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), on March 14 suggested that the Air Force will need many more drones in future years and […]

Improved range, payload, sensing and weapons are needed not only for the U.S. Air Force’s future Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, but also for the current fighter […]

In light of the number of global threats and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ambitions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. needs to bolster its allies on NATO’s […]

High costs for U.S. Air Force manned air-to-air and strike platforms, such as the future Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth-generation fighter, the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35, the Northrop Grumman […]