The US eVTOL community recently took an incremental, but significant step forward when AIR announced its next phase of participation in the US Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime Program. Group Editor Marty Kauchak looks at the importance of the move.
To address eVTOL aircraft battery management, a US Air Force program recently received a demonstration of a mobile battery care station developed by Arctech Charge.
The project for the first electric aircraft charging station on a U.S. military instillation has officially broken ground, with a completion date in early October.
Applied has won a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to generate high-fidelity synthetic data to train an algorithm designed to identify and track adversary systems.
The return of face-to-face interaction gave U.S. Air Force leaders the opportunity to share the same room with small businesses and entrepreneurs to spark interaction and unleash ingenuity to solve warfighter problems.
AFWERX has been focusing on creating Spark Cells – a network of U.S. Air Force and Space Force personnel, Department of Defense partners, academia and industry experts, and government facilitators who are all focused on solving technological and tactical problems.
Forget that most major eVTOL OEMs are not eyeing their first round of operational flights until about 2025. An all-hands effort of government and industry stakeholders is gaining momentum to establish the training organizations that will prepare pilots and maintainers to begin this next chapter of aerospace industry history.
The AFWERX Agility Prime program initiated the first government remotely piloted flight of an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft and is evaluating the training plan for future operations.
Street Smarts VR won a contract award with the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command in the amount of approximately $1.5 million to standardize and modernize training using VR-based performance measurement.