The closest hint of what Air Force planners expect in the future Increment 2 of CCAs was seen in Lockheed Martin testing an AI-agent’s ability to carry out missile evasion while piloting the X-62 VISTA.

As we wrote at the time, “higher order tasks like evading missiles autonomously are also part of the subsequent evolution the next generation of CCAs would be expected to have. The current ones would freeze the elementary hardware, design, networking technology and most importantly logistics, tactics, concepts and command tasking procedures.”