‘No more viable option than NGAD,’ Air Force says as decision rests in new hands

AURORA, Colo.—With the future of the Air Force's sixth-generation fighter jet in limbo, service officials pointed to a recent internal study to buttress their argument that there’s no better way to secure the air in future conflicts than the Next Generation Air Dominance program.  “Bluntly, what this study told us, we tried a whole bunch of different options and there was no more viable option than NGAD to achieve air superiority in this highly contested environment,&