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The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force\u2019s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet<\/a>, known as NGAD, to Boeing, President Donald Trump announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sixth-generation fighter, which will replace the F-22 Raptor, will be designated the F-47, Trump said. It will have \u201cstate-of-the-art stealth technologies [making it] virtually unseeable,\u201d and will fly alongside multiple autonomous drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before,\u201d Trump said in an Oval Office announcement with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin and Lt. Gen. Dale White, the Air Force\u2019s military deputy for acquisition, technology and logistics. \u201cIn terms of all the attributes of a fighter jet, there\u2019s never been anything even close to it, from speed to maneuverability to what it can have [as] payload. And this has been in the works for a long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s enemies will never see it coming,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin said in a statement the F-47 will be \u201cthe most advanced, lethal and adaptable fighter ever developed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not just building another fighter,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cWe are shaping the future of warfare and putting our enemies on notice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition for NGAD<\/a> was between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, after Northrop Grumman announced in 2023<\/a> that it would not compete for the program as a prime contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recognize the importance of designing, building a sixth-generation fighter capability for the United States Air Force,\u201d Steve Parker, the interim president and chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, said in a release. \u201cIn preparation for this mission, we made the most significant investment in the history of our defense business, and we are ready to provide the most advanced and innovative NGAD aircraft needed to support the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockheed Martin said in a statement that it is disappointed by the result of the NGAD competition but is \u201cconfident we delivered a competitive solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockheed did not say whether it was considering a protest of the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will await further discussions with the U.S. Air Force on any next steps,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The F-47 will be the heart of the NGAD concept\u2019s \u201cfamily of systems,\u201d<\/a> which also includes collaborative combat aircraft and cutting-edge sensors, weaponry and other technology that will allow it to better connect with satellites and other aircraft. Air Force officials have consistently said NGAD will be necessary to counter an advanced adversary, such as China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Atomics and Anduril are building their own CCA candidates \u2014 the RFQ-42A and RFQ-44A<\/a>, respectively \u2014 to be the first iteration of drone wingmen flying alongside the F-35 or F-47. Subsequent generations are on their way. The Air Force wants CCAs to be relatively cheap, piloted with autonomous software and have the ability conduct recon, strike missions, electronic warfare and decoy missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are also expected to have advanced adaptive engines<\/a>, dubbed NGAP or next-generation adaptive propulsion<\/a>, that shift to the best configuration for any given situation for the best thrust and efficiency. General Electric Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney are in the running to build NGAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing\u2019s victory will likely help strengthen the defense industrial base, said Doug Birkey, executive director of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. It means all three of the U.S. military\u2019s prime aerospace contractors now have deals to build fifth- or sixth-generation stealth penetrating aircraft. Lockheed builds the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and Northrop has touted its B-21 Raider as the world\u2019s first sixth-generation plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the country, that\u2019s a really important thing, to have that innovation, that competition and frankly, the volume production,\u201d Birkey said. \u201cOur ability to turn stuff en masse \u2014 which is what the future world is going to require \u2014 has been limited, and we need to rebuild the defense industrial base that the current environment demands. We\u2019ve been slow to get there. This is an important step in rounding that corner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Boeing has struggled company-wide in recent years on both civilian and military aircraft. Nearly 350 people died in a pair of crashes of the company\u2019s 737 Max airliners, and last July, the company agreed to a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid a felony fraud trial related to the crashes. The door plug of another 737 Max blew out in midair in January 2024, and videos from the harrowing scene went viral. Boeing\u2019s machinists also went on strike for nearly two months last year amid a contract dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aerospace giant\u2019s T-7A Red Hawk trainer, KC-46A Pegasus tanker and Air Force One programs have struggled with quality problems and delays, and the company has lost billions of dollars in cost overruns. In September 2024, Boeing fired the head of its defense sector, Ted Colbert, amid steep losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid that turmoil, Birkey said, this was an important win for Boeing \u2014 and now the company must show it can produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up to Boeing to make this opportunity a win,\u201d Birkey said. \u201cOnly time will tell on that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engineering and manufacturing development contract awarded Friday is structured as a cost-plus incentive fee deal, an Air Force official said. Under such a deal, the government pays the contractor to cover expenses as it develops a system, and the contractor also receives a fee that can be adjusted based on how well it performs. That is the same structure used for the early development of Northrop Grumman\u2019s B-21 Raider stealth bomber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under this contract, the official said, Boeing will mature, integrate and test all parts of the NGAD crewed fighter, and it will produce a handful of test aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing\u2019s contract also includes \u201ccompetitively priced\u201d options for building low-rate initial production models of the F-47, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin said in a statement Friday that experimental versions of the NGAD have been flying for the last five years, \u201cflying hundreds of hours, testing cutting-edge concepts and proving that we can push the envelope of technology with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin said the significant advance experimentation and work on the F-47 will allow the service to fly the jet by the end of Trump\u2019s administration. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency helped conduct the early experimentation to refine NGAD, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin presents a display of the F-47, the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter. (Screenshot via Defense Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe F-47 has unprecedented maturity,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cWhile the F-22 is currently the finest air superiority fighter in the world, and its modernization will make it even better, the F-47 is a generational leap forward. The maturity of the aircraft at this phase in the program confirms its readiness to dominate the future fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin also scoffed at China\u2019s claims last December to have test flown its own sixth-generation fighter, the J-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite what our adversaries claim, the F-47 is truly the world\u2019s first crewed sixth-generation fighter, built to dominate the most capable peer adversary and operate in the most perilous threat environments imaginable,\u201d Allvin said. \u201cWhile our X-planes were flying in the shadows, we were cementing our air dominance \u2014 accelerating the technology, refining our operational concepts, and proving that we can field this capability faster than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allvin said the F-47 would cost less than the F-22 and \u201cbe more adaptable to future threats.\u201d The Air Force will have more NGAD fighters in its fleet than Raptors, he added. The Air Force now has about 180 F-22s, which cost $143 million apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump declined to disclose the price of NGAD, saying that would reveal some of the jet\u2019s highly classified technology and size. But the Air Force expects to spend $20 billion on NGAD between 2025 and 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price of NGAD has presented a major vulnerability to the program, one which placed it in jeopardy last year. Former Air Force Sec. Frank Kendall paused the program in May 2024<\/a> after cost estimates came in around triple that of the F-35, or as much as $300 million per tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pause was needed, Kendall said, to reconsider whether NGAD was the right concept and look for ways to bring its costs down through a redesign. A review of the program concluded that NGAD was necessary, but after the presidential election, Kendall chose to leave the final decision on how to proceed<\/a> to the incoming Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force said decisions on basing the F-47 and other program elements will be made in years to come, as the fighter comes closer to becoming operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also left the door open to selling versions of NGAD to allies \u2014 though he said those might be \u201ctoned-down\u201d versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause someday, maybe they\u2019re not our allies, right?\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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