AFWERX Prime
Abstract
AFWERX Prime is a new acquisition approach that uses government-specific resources to reduce risk in emerging technology markets while partnering with investors, industry, interagency, and international partners for accelerated, affordable, and agile commercial and military capability. Initial efforts of AFWERX Prime Agility Prime program provides research, development, testing, and evaluation to field transformative vertical flight technology. These systems incorporate non-traditional electric or hybrid propulsion for manned or optionally manned missions, with onboard, remote, or eventually autonomous control. Agility Prime efforts leverages commercial investment in technologies that support mobility and sustainment in benign or contested environments to enable agile, lower-cost distributed logistics, humanitarian operations, disaster response operations, and communications capabilities. Agility Prime leverages emerging vertical lift and logistics platforms, enabling resilient basing and sustainment options. Future Prime initiatives will use the same paradigm to leverage commercial technology and investment for high returns on government participation in this sector, achieving advanced, agile, and accelerated fielding of commercial and military capability bolstering national security and domestic technological dominance. AFWERX Prime autonomy efforts aim to accelerate enabling autonomy technologies and dual-use approaches to transition autonomous capabilities into fielded capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 640858_0604009F_4_3600_PB_2025
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