Ryan Henry has been pre-briefing Capitol Hill staffers on bits of the Quadrennial Defense Review. Staffers told Defense Daily about the session, complaining that Henry, principal policy deputy for DOD and QDR point man, provided few details. They, too, must wait for the report drop early next month.
The Air Force is leaning toward a less-sophisticated autonomous aircraft in the second increment of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the services chief futurist said. He also suggested that the next increment of CCA may be air-launched, a la the "Rapid Dragon" experiments conducted by the service in recent years.