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Date Time AFWERX Agility Prime announces “flying car” military airworthiness, infrastructure milestones AFWERX Agility Prime announced Dec. 10, during the Accelerate event, a series of milestones for the “flying car” program and discussed new initiatives for 2021, including six sectors for potential “Prime” programs. “AFWERX Accelerate was a big week with Agility Prime having a ground-breaking ceremony for a simulation facility to allow experimentation from the researcher to the operator in the field,” said Air Force Materiel Command. The groundbreaking, as well as a “ribbo...

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...