AF Taps 'Flying Car' Firms For 'Prime' Investment; Expands Program « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
By Theresa Hitchens on December 14, 2020 at 2:15 PM SpaceX’s Starship already is being eyed by TRANSCOM for point-to-point transport. WASHINGTON: The Air Force is pushing out a rash of new initiatives to harvest cutting-edge commercial tech, including an effort to kick open new markets for next-generation space systems. The ‘Space Prime’ effort is being modeled on the service’s high-profile Agility Prime project to ‘prime the pump’ for commercial use of ‘flying cars’ — electronic vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles — as a way for the military to then levera...
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