Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)

Defense officials are divided about the U.S. Air Force’s plan for Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Blades of the first ducted fan thruster in the hybrid propulsion system are “spinning as we speak,” GA-ASI President David Alexander said.

A Northrop spokesman did not immediately respond to Alexander’s statements.

Gen. David Allvin says software advancements make it possible to have the independent systems work together in a way that does not affect security.

As fixed-price deals signed years ago continue to burden balance sheets, Boeing Defense and Space is focusing on smart growth opportunities.

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Next-Generation Air Dominance is in question as top service officials say the 2026 budget will include hard decisions.

Airbus has unveiled concepts for an uncrewed wingman that could support German Air Force Eurofighters in the 2030s.

The two companies are studying Pearl-family business jet engines as an option to power military uncrewed aerial systems.

Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.

With the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the head of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development arm challenges U.S. Air Force planners and competitors.

The life expectancy of a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft is not a trivial question.

The leaders signed a trilateral research, development, test and evaluation projects agreement.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.

The U.S. Air Force expects to field more than 100 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) under the first phase of the program.

Lockheed’s road map to victory provides clues for the sixth-generation combat aircraft program.

The U.S. Air Force announced April 24 that it selected General Atomics and Anduril to continue designs for the first phase of its CCA program.

Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will continue to design the first increment of the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) for the U.S. Air Force.

About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.

The Navy’s CCA target amounts to roughly half the Air Force’s target unit cost.

Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.

Northrop Grumman announced an agreement to apply EpiSci’s Tactical AI software in the architecture for “advanced autonomous solutions.”

The U.S. Air Force will soon begin modifying an F-16 to evaluate autonomy software and artificial intelligence.

Its plan differs from some prior programs, such as the venerable MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper.