{"id":15884656,"date":"2026-08-24T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fa-xx-award-august-deadline-slips-navy-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:59:18","slug":"fa-xx-award-august-deadline-slips-navy-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fr\/fa-xx-award-august-deadline-slips-navy-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy Promised an Answer in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F\/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There is now one week of August left, and no announcement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>We covered the competition itself in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fa-xx-navy-sixth-gen-fighter-boeing-northrop-2026\/\">F\/A-XX Carrier Fighter: Boeing or Northrop Grumman?<\/a> This is what has happened since, which is mostly nothing, and why that is itself worth noting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Informations cl\u00e9s<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;text-align:left\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Programme<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">F\/A-XX, the U.S. Navy&rsquo;s sixth-generation carrier fighter<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Contract type<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Competitors<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Boeing and Northrop Grumman<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Eliminated<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Lockheed Martin, dropped in 2025 after its proposal did not meet requirements<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Promised award<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">August 2026, stated by CNO Adm. Daryl Caudle in April 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Status as of 24 August 2026<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">No award announced<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Remplace<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Target service<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Carrier air wings in the 2030s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">FY27 funding<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Congress raised F\/A-XX funding to roughly $900 million<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Everyone Said August<\/h2><p>The August commitment was not a leak or an analyst&rsquo;s guess. It came from the top of the department, repeatedly, on the record. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle all said the engineering and manufacturing development award would come this month.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>As of 22 August, Aviation Week reported the Navy was still hopeful an announcement would come, while noting the decision was out of the service&rsquo;s hands. That phrasing is the interesting part. It means the hold-up is above the Navy: at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, or the White House, or in the budget mechanics that have to line up before a multi-billion-dollar award can be signed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1990743834  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:qcOf.cf39\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/f-35c-flight-deck-uss-george-washington-carrier-aviation.jpg\" alt=\"F-35C Lightning II on the flight deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">No F\/A-XX design has been publicly released by either bidder or the Navy. Whatever is selected will operate alongside the F-35C, not replace it. (U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Is Actually at Stake<\/h2><p>This is the contract that decides what flies off American carrier decks in the 2040s. It replaces the Super Hornet and the Growler, the two aircraft that currently do most of the Navy&rsquo;s striking and all of its electronic attack.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>For the loser it is worse than losing a programme. Boeing already won the Air Force&rsquo;s F-47 in March 2025. If Boeing wins this too, Northrop Grumman is left without a crewed fighter line. If Northrop wins, it re-enters a business it has not held since the F-14 era ended and the YF-23 lost.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;F\/A-XX fighter downselect coming in August.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Adm. Daryl Caudle<\/strong> &mdash; Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy, April 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Northrop has spent part of the summer publicly defending its ability to build the aircraft if selected, which is not the behaviour of a company that thinks the decision is already made.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7K9hh7e2unQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why a Slipped Month Matters<\/h2><p>On its own, a few weeks is nothing. Large defence awards slip routinely, and the protest period that follows any decision will take longer than the delay itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What makes it worth watching is the pattern. The Navy has already had F\/A-XX paused once, in 2025, when the programme&rsquo;s future was genuinely in doubt before Congress intervened and raised funding for FY27 to around $900 million. A programme that has been stopped once and restarted, and whose award date is now sliding again while officials say the timing is not theirs to control, is a programme where the schedule is not the binding constraint. Something else is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The award may well land before the month is out, possibly before you read this. If it does, the more interesting question will be why it took until the final week of a date that three separate officials committed to in April.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: DefenseScoop, 20 April 2026; Breaking Defense, April 2026; Aviation Week, 22 August 2026; The War Zone; USNI News. Status accurate as of 24 August 2026.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Articles similaires<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fa-xx-navy-sixth-gen-fighter-boeing-northrop-2026\/\">F\/A-XX Carrier Fighter: Boeing or Northrop Grumman?<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/boeing-wins-f-47-ngad-contract\/\">Boeing Wins the F-47 NGAD Contract<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/navys-f-a-xx-rescued-by-900m-funding-surge\/\">The Navy&rsquo;s F\/A-XX Rescued by a $900m Funding Surge<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F\/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We covered the competition itself in F\/A-XX Carrier Fighter: Boeing or Northrop Grumman? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15884016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15884656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>F\/A-XX Award: The August Deadline Is Slipping | MiGFlug<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Navy promised an F\/A-XX award in August. 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