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U.S. Air Force to Refine CCA Increment 2 Concept, As Service Announces Buy of More Increment 1 Aircraft

U.S. Air Force to Refine CCA Increment 2 Concept, As Service Announces Buy of More Increment 1 Aircraft
Senior Airman Adam Roach, an F-15EX crew chief with the 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, unveils Col. Daniel Lehoski's name on the 53rd Wing's flagship F-15EX2 during the 53rd Wing change of command ceremony at Eglin AFB, Fla. on July. 21st last year. Lehoski had served as the commandant of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nev. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force plans to refine its concept for the future Increment 2 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). "Increment 2--we are 'danger' close to getting started in earnest on that," Col. Timothy Helfrich, the senior materiel leader for Air Force Materiel Command's advanced aircraft division, told the inaugural Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' future airpower forum in Arlington, Va. "We're doing government analysis right now with FFRDCs [federally funded research development centers] and internal government agencies to look…

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