Glossary / Programs
Collaborative Combat AircraftCCA
CCA is an Air Force program (a sibling to NGAD) to field low-cost, attritable autonomous aircraft that extend the sensor and weapons reach of crewed platforms. Increment 1 vendors include General Atomics and Anduril; later increments will expand mission sets and autonomy. CCAs are deliberately smaller and cheaper than traditional fighters to enable mass.
Why it matters to your pipeline
CCA reshapes the fighter-force equation by substituting software-defined autonomy for crewed airframes. It's a major pull for AI/autonomy, communications, and unmanned-systems vendors.
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Example
Air Force leaders have used a planning figure of at least 1,000 CCAs, pairing them with the F-35 and the F-47 to generate combat mass without proportional crew growth.
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