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U.S. Air Force Expects to Make Skyborg Program of Record in Fiscal 2024

U.S. Air Force Expects to Make Skyborg Program of Record in Fiscal 2024
Picture of an XQ-58A Valkyrie with the 40th Test Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla. last year (Photo on Eglin AFB Website)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The U.S. Air Force plans to make Skyborg--one of the service's original Vanguard research and development efforts--a program of record in fiscal 2024, and for the Kratos [KTOS] XQ-58A Valkyrie, that will likely mean the start of equipping and testing the drone with systems for specific missions to dovetail with the service's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort. "Today, when we produce an XQ-58, it rolls off the line as a 'green' aircraft," Steve Fendley, the president of Kratos’…

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