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Boeing wins $20B+ F/A-XX contract; 6th-gen carrier fighter built for drone wingmen

Published 3 October 2026

On 29 September 2026 the US DoD and Navy awarded Boeing more than $20 billion for full-scale development of the F/A-XX under the Navy’s Next Generation Air Dominance programme. The platform is explicitly designed for interoperability with Collaborative Combat Aircraft — autonomous unmanned wingman drones — and the contract covers multiple ground-test and airworthiness flight-test articles.

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