Pentagon and Netherlands Ministry of Defence Partner on Collaborative Combat Aircraft Development
The Pentagon and the Netherlands Ministry of Defence have entered into a partnership to develop a prototype collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) in the United States. This agreement aims to enhance interoperability between the two nations, focusing on open-architecture autonomous capabilities that can share data in combined operations. The Netherlands will acquire a prototype CCA aircraft as part of this collaboration, contributing to development work in the USA. This partnership builds on a letter of intent signed in October 2025, emphasizing the importance of interoperability and shared advantage in human-machine teaming. The Netherlands will work with the USAF’s Experimental Operations Unit (EOU), which is developing CCA operational concepts. The EOU has recently conducted exercises with the Anduril Industries YFQ-44A, which is competing in the USAF’s CCA Increment 1 competition. 
