The Air Force’s ambitious Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program has been paused due to staggering costs and concerns over outdated design elements. Cost: The Air Force’s ...

What You Need to Know: The high cost of the NGAD program—$300 million per airframe, more than three times the F-35’s cost per plane—has put it on shaky ground.Initially touted as the next ...

The U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which aims to deliver a 6th-generation fighter to replace the F-22 Raptor, is undergoing a significant review that could ...

The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme has been on pause since July 2024 following a re-evaluation of the technology and concept by the US Air Force. The suggested demise of the US Air ...

U.S. Air Force officials say they have paused a contract award for the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter as they rethink the aircraft’s requirements. NGAD is an advanced fighter jet ...

David Allvin talked about the B-21 and the future of the sixth-generation combat jet that has been under development as part of his service’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) initiative ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin talked about the B-21 and the future of the sixth-generation combat jet that has been under development as part of his service’s Next Generation Air ...

But naval officials never clarified whether the F/A-XX would share a propulsion system with the NGAD platform. The service once appeared interested in adaptive-cycle technology, participating in ...

Tightening budgets and high anticipated costs first threw NGAD’s future in doubt this summer. The service is now in the midst of a four-month review of its air superiority strategy that ...

The designs of all three of these new programs—NGAS, NGAD, and CCAs—are tied together, from an operational and cost perspective, Kendall said. But as things stand today, he said, there’s not ...