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Authorization Conferees Remove HASC-Proposed CCA Cost Caps

Frank Wolfe

Friday, December 8th, 2023

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Authorization Conferees Remove HASC-Proposed CCA Cost Caps

An F-35A Lightning II flies over Hill AFB, Utah on Nov. 21. The F-35 may one day deploy Collaborative Combat Aircraft (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would remove cost caps proposed by the House Armed Services Committee for Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), according to an agreement between House and Senate conferees. Section 224 of the conference report "would remove the requirement for establishing cost caps for CCAs specifically labeled as attritable, expendable, or exquisite." "The conferees recognize that the secretary of the Air Force and the secretary of the Navy instead intend that their CCA programs pursue a…

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