The Air Force's sixth-gen NGAD fighter continues to face an uncertain future with the Trump Administration's decision still ...

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 ...

The NGAD isn’t even worth spending time—let alone $300 million per aircraft—discussing. What’s needed is prioritization. And if the Air Force chiefs cannot prioritize on their own ...

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.

While the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter and Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) tanker are seemingly independent capabilities, their fates became intertwined in the ...

“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 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 ...