Initially the service incorporated the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Air Dominance Study into the project’s blueprint. NGAD aims ... generation fighter jets in the skies.

Originally, the NGAD was to enter service around 2023, replacing the F-22 Raptor aircraft and becoming the world's first sixth-generation fighter jet. The work to develop it is kept in the ...

which shift to the most efficient thrust configuration for whatever situation a jet is in, to power NGAD. The Pentagon seriously considered upgrading the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with adaptive ...

The company said that IRDS has a number of “newly developed” tactical surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking sensors “to enhance aircraft ... Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter ...

In 2023, Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force, the so-called "Next Generation Air Dominance," or NGAD fighter -- so ...

While the US has sixth-generation jet fighter programs, referred to as next-generation air dominance, or NGAD, and Lockheed is likely bidding to provide those planes, how the process will play out ...

The Air Force has expanded funding for a cutting-edge adaptive engine that would power the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, while the future of NGAD itself remains under consideration.