Anduril, General Atomics get Air Force contracts to build first drone wingmen

Air Force leaders have given initial production contracts to Anduril and General Atomics, which will both build collaborative combat aircraft based on their respective prototypes. Northrop Grumman’s self-financed offering was not selected.Several companies also received money to develop software that will compete to pilot the service’s future fleet of drone wingmen.The Increment 1 CCA contracts are for three lots of the drone wingmen, Air Force Col. Timothy Helfrich, the portfolio ac