NGAD’s demise ‘grossly exaggerated’ as US Air Force continues to re-evaluate programme
A concept of the NGAD sixth-gen fighter from Lockheed Martin (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
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 Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform, after it was paused by the branch in August 2024, has been dismissed as “grossly overexaggerated” by an official source close to the matter at the International Fighter Conference 2024, Defence iQ.
“The US Air Force has not departed from the idea of NGAD,” the source added. “It is still very much a part of our future.”
NGAD has often been described as a ‘family of systems’ centred around a crewed sixth-gen fighter and unmanned collaborative combat aircraft (CCA). Originally conceived of in 2014, it is set
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