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Kendall said the Air Force would like to cut that to three, but acknowledged budgetary limitations will make choosing just two companies more likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force plans to field several different types of CCAs, with different capabilities and levels of survivability, to carry out a wide range of missions including strikes, surveillance, jamming, and serving as decoys to draw enemy fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kendall said the Air Force is working on its first two \u201cincrements\u201d of CCAs as part of its five-year plan, and moving with a \u201csense of urgency\u201d on the program. As with the first increment of CCAs, he said, the contracts for the second increment will cover concept definition and preliminary design work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force will next focus on moving CCAs into production, Kendall said, and in the next few years will further downselect the companies working on the first increment of CCAs. Kendall said it remains uncertain how many companies will move into production, adding that there could be at least two firms working on the initial batch of CCAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Hunter, the service\u2019s assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, said the Air Force\u2019s CCA program has been closely consulting with Air Combat Command to see what kind of capabilities these aircraft would need in combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Air Force received a great deal of feedback from industry about how they could meet the service\u2019s loose goal of fielding about 1,000 CCAs, Hunter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies who didn\u2019t make the cut for the first increment will get a second shot in the next increment, Hunter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least one defense contractor is hoping to do just that. In an interview with Defense News Tuesday, Steve Fendley, president of the unmanned systems division at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, said that while the company didn\u2019t make the cut for the first round of CCAs, it remains very interested in the program and plans to compete for the next version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re in the mix,\u201d Fendley said. \u201cPart of what\u2019s important to the Air Force, and to us, is being able to see the range of capability systems and the range of cost systems to satisfy all of the different scenarios and mission challenges\u201d for which the Air Force wants CCAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the attention paid to CCAs has so far focused on the companies building the physical drone portion, Hunter said, but \u201canother slew of contractors\u201d is working alongside them on software and other elements of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That work will continue apart from the individual increments to develop the CCA air vehicles, he said. 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