Initially the service incorporated the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Air Dominance Study into the project’s blueprint. NGAD aims to develop a few technological areas ...

As a “family of systems,” NGAD is expected to include a manned sixth-generation stealth fighter and a mass of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) that will serve the jets as loyal drone wingmen.

But the Air Force has currently put the NGAD program on hold as it examines the exact capabilities it is looking to get out of the new aircraft. Although the Air Force has put the Next Generation ...

In American speak, that translates into something called for now Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD). The project dates back to more than a decade ago, when a new plane was imagined as a ...

“Bluntly, what this study told us, we tried a whole bunch of different options and there was no more viable option than NGAD to achieve air superiority in this highly contested environment,” Ma ...

Both engines use adaptive technologies that would allow an NGAD aircraft to adjust to the ideal thrust configuration for its situation, providing greater range and thermal management capability ...

Credit: U.S. Air Force AURORA, Colorado—Top U.S. Air Force officials are increasing their public push for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter months after the program was placed on ...

The Debrief: Hypersonic Bomber Emerges As Office’s Next Goal After NGAD is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is ...

The two proposed adaptive engines that might one day power the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter have passed an important design review, and Pratt & Whitney and GE Aerospace are each ...