Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance 'Fighter' Program Enters New Stage
Howard Altman - Yesterday 9:43 PM
The Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program — which includes a new manned fighter-like platform, associated collaborative drones, weapons, sensors, and communications architecture — has started its engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) program, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced Wednesday. The goal, he said, is to turn NGAD into a real capability before 2030.
“We have now started on the EMD program to do the development aircraft that we will take into production,” Kendall said during a Heritage Foundation talk Wednesday afternoon.
The clock on that 6th-generation fighter program and its many other facets, he said, “is starting roughly now. We think we’ll have the capability by the end of the decade.”
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