
While the U.S. Air Force is examining industry capacity to build engines for the future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the service also wants a feel for the broader landscape on advanced small engines. The acquisition branch of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's propulsion directorate (AFLCMC/LPA) at Tinker AFB, Okla., on Nov. 17 said that it had issued an advanced small engines request for information (RFI) dealing with "propulsion for small-scale current and future weapons systems." The directorate said…