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What's Next For CCAs After U.S. Air Force Downselect?

Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast

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Welcome to Check 6. Today we'll head back to one of our two anchor themes this year for our defense episode, Collaborative Combat Aircraft. After Steve Trimble and I spent some time at the ILA Berlin Airshow and also at Euro Saturday talking with folks about the topic, largely folks on Europe, the Pentagon has forced us to gaze back at the U.S. market. U.S. Air Force has now awarded two CCA production contracts to Anderil and General Atomics.

To help lay out what happened and what comes next and where we go from here, I'm joined by Brian Everstein, our Pentagon editor, and again, Steve, our senior defense editor. I'm Robert Wall, Aviation Week's executive editor for Defense in Space. So, Brian, let's start with you. Anderil and GA were effectively the incumbents flying their demonstrators under their Phase 1 contracts. Now they've got these follow-on awards. What should we know about them? What's important? Anything that surprised you? Was it surprising they even won?

There were a couple things that did stand out to me, but I would not say that them both winning really did. I think this is something that had been previewed really since the onset of CCA Increment 1. Air Force officials had repeatedly said that they could and likely would award contracts to both of them.

What's Next For CCAs After U.S. Air Force Downselect?

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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What's Next For CCAs After U.S. Air Force Downselect?

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.