	Background

The Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) is a small, intra-theater airlifter being procured by the Army and Air Force. A rift over FCA between the Army and Air Force began to surface in 2005. Industry teams competed four aircraft for the JCA contract:
L-3 Communications, Alenia Aeronautica, and Boeing offered the C-27J. By April 2007, updates to this JROC approval reflected a joint requirement for up to 75 aircraft.
Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) is a joint acquisition program between the Army and Air Force intended to procure a commercial off-the-shelf aircraft capable of meeting Army and Air Force requirements for intra-theater airlift. The C-27J Spartan, built by L-3 Communications, was awarded the JCA contract in 2007. This is an update of a report by [author name scrubbed] and will be updated as conditions warrant.