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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
The two vendors emerged successful from an original pool of five and are expected to carry their drone designs through a prototyping phase that will build and test aircraft.
With the CCA program, Secretary Kendall and the Air Force have embraced a fast-moving, forward-looking approach to field autonomous systems at speed and scale,” Anduril CEO and Co-Founder Brian Schimpf said in a statement. Boeing said in a statement today that the aerospace giant offered a “proprietary solution tailored to the U.S. Air Force’s unique CCA phase one requirements,” and did not pitch the MQ-25 Stingray or MQ-28 Ghost Bat. “While we are disappointed that we won’t be moving forward in this phase of the Air Force’s CCA program, we are undeterred in our commitment to providing next-generation autonomous combat aircraft for U.S. and global military customers.
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