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Air Force

Air Force CCA Mission Autonomy Phase Begins With Software From Collins Aerospace And Shield AI

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

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Air Force CCA Mission Autonomy Phase Begins With Software From Collins Aerospace And Shield AI

Pictured is a General Atomics' photo of three of the company's YFQ-42As at a test site in California.

The Air Force is highlighting RTX's [RTX] Collins Aerospace and Shield AI as early examples of the potential for the service's Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) to adapt new, vendor agnostic software easily into major weapons systems, such as the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1 program. "The A-GRA is being integrated by the program’s mission autonomy vendors, RTX Collins and Shield AI, which have started semi-autonomous flight testing in partnership with General Atomics on the YFQ-42 platform…

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