The Air Force is out of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System business, per Faykes, who said DOD had “terminated” the USAF portion of the program. Instead, the Air Force is to steer the technology it surfaced toward the Air Force’s next generation strike program. The Air Force has requested approximately $1.2 billion across the future years defense program to fund continued research and development for a long-range strike platform.
The Air Force wants more companies able to produce its new, multi-use, anti-radar missile that one expert says will prove vital in any future peer conflict and would be in high demand for the war in Iran if stocks were available now.