What To Expect At AFA

It's hard to believe it's AFA again this year.

I think that I'm going into it with some relatively lower expectations on big news, looking for more updates, more trying to gauge the thinking of some of the senior leadership.

I think in the context of Where we are in the Pentagon, we do not have secretaries of the Army or the Navy.

We do have a secretary of the Air Force.

So that's good for getting an update from the Air Force.

But I think that that also means everyone's going to want to not make some big waves and get a lot of attention.

So we're going to go in with the secretary and the chief on the first day.

My guess is going into this, we're not going to get any big new program announcements.

We're not going to get... really an F-47 name or anything big like that.

But we will hear a lot more about the program announcement that the Air Force did have running up to this, which is the Mast Modular Aircraft The MQ-9 replacement, I think we'll get some news on that really from the outset on where the Air Force's thinking is.

We've had a briefing from some of the top leadership of the Air Force going up to AFA to set the stage to kind of see their thinking on where they want to go on this new program.

I would expect to hear some more on the Sentinel program last year.

I think it was last year or the spring AFA, we had a really in-depth briefing on where the design changes are.

As the program review is coming out, I think we'll hear a little bit more there.

Looking at the schedule of updates we're getting from senior leadership, there's going to be a lot of space space availabilities, at least.

Vivian will know a lot more if that's going to translate to some news, but good on the Space Force for putting a lot of folks within our firing line to take some questions.

And I think the last thing I'll add is I've been to at least a dozen of these, and I don't think I've ever seen three exhibit floors.

So there's going to be a huge industry presence at this AFA.

And so that'll be good for a lot of new imagery on some new things that companies are thinking of.

I would look at CCAs.

I would look at MMA, the mass modular aircraft proposals.

I would look at new low-cost weapons.

I think those are things that I'll be looking for on the exhibit floor.

All right.

Sounds good.

It's hard to believe it's AFA again this year.

I think that I'm going into it with some relatively lower expectations on big news, looking for more updates, more trying to gauge the thinking of some of the senior leadership.

I think in the context of Where we are in the Pentagon, we do not have secretaries of the Army or the Navy.

We do have a secretary of the Air Force.

So that's good for getting an update from the Air Force.

But I think that that also means everyone's going to want to not make some big waves and get a lot of attention.

So we're going to go in with the secretary and the chief on the first day.

My guess is going into this, we're not going to get any big new program announcements.

We're not going to get... really an F-47 name or anything big like that.

But we will hear a lot more about the program announcement that the Air Force did have running up to this, which is the Mast Modular Aircraft The MQ-9 replacement, I think we'll get some news on that really from the outset on where the Air Force's thinking is.

We've had a briefing from some of the top leadership of the Air Force going up to AFA to set the stage to kind of see their thinking on where they want to go on this new program.

I would expect to hear some more on the Sentinel program last year.

I think it was last year or the spring AFA, we had a really in-depth briefing on where the design changes are.

As the program review is coming out, I think we'll hear a little bit more there.

Looking at the schedule of updates we're getting from senior leadership, there's going to be a lot of space space availabilities, at least.

Vivian will know a lot more if that's going to translate to some news, but good on the Space Force for putting a lot of folks within our firing line to take some questions.

And I think the last thing I'll add is I've been to at least a dozen of these, and I don't think I've ever seen three exhibit floors.

So there's going to be a huge industry presence at this AFA.

And so that'll be good for a lot of new imagery on some new things that companies are thinking of.

I would look at CCAs.

I would look at MMA, the mass modular aircraft proposals.

I would look at new low-cost weapons.

I think those are things that I'll be looking for on the exhibit floor.

All right.

Sounds good.