Episode Summary: Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) represent the next generation of uncrewed autonomous airpower. The Air Force recently awarded a series of contracts that will see the FQ-42 and FQ-44 CCAs transition to the operational realm. We want to learn more about where the program stands at this juncture, and there’s no one better to help us do that than Anduril&#x27;s Dave “Mach” Cochran and General Atomic&#x27;s Mike Atwood. Credits: Host: Heather &quot;Lucky&quot; Penney, Director of Research, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Producer: Shane Thin Executive Producer: Douglas Birkey Guest: David &quot;Mach&quot; Cochran, Director, Autonomous Airpower Growth, Anduril Industries Guest: Mike Atwood, Senior Director, Advanced Programs at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Links: Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3GbA5Of Website: https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MitchellStudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mitchell.Institute.Aerospace LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nzBisb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchellstudies/ #MitchellStudies #AerospaceAdvantage #CCA #Industry

CCA Update: What Are the Next Steps? — Ep. 296

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Welcome to the Aerospace Advantage podcast brought to you by PenFed. I'm your host, Heather Lucky-Penney. Here on the Aerospace Advantage, we speak with leaders in the armed forces industry and other subject matter experts to explore the intersection of strategy, operational concepts, technology, and policy when it comes to air and space power. We talk a lot about collaborative combat aircraft, CCA for short, and we talk about them a lot for good reason.

They represent the next generation of uncrewed air power, and the Air Force has a ton riding on their success. The service recently awarded a series of contracts tied to CCA, and these are really crucial because these contracts were not for more research and development. The Air Force is now buying operational CCA at scale. And you've heard us say this a lot, if you want to make something real, you must buy it. So these contracts represent a historic marker.

So we want to learn more about where the program stands at this juncture, and there's no one better to help with that than the experts from General Atomics and Andrel. These are the companies that are making the FQ-42 and the FQ-44, respectively. So we want to know more about what it means to meet this engineering and manufacturing development and production contract milestone. So with that, it's my pleasure to introduce Dave Mock-Cockman from Andrel. He's a longtime Air Force fighter pilot with time in the F-15E and the F-35. Plus, he was our second Mitchell Institute Air Force fellow back in the day.

CCA Update: What Are the Next Steps? — Ep. 296

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

CCA Update: What Are the Next Steps? — Ep. 296

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.