AFWERX Prime
Abstract
AFWERX Prime (formerly Agility 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. These Prime efforts are led by a Chief Commercialization Officer whose key responsibility is to accelerate technology commercialization for fielding of military capability. Initial efforts of AFWERX Prime 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. AFWERX Prime 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. AFWERX Prime explores associated technologies and follow-on Prime initiatives, including autonomy, and leveraging commercial software best practices and capabilities to solve capability integration problem sets. Agility Prime, the first 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. Next-Gen Large Aircraft aims to accelerate prototyping and widespread adoption of blended wing body aircraft for military and commercial applications, leveraging common goals among DOD and allied nations, commercial airlines and freight companies, other industry partners, and private investors. Cargo, tanker, and non-stealth bomber aircraft account for approximately 40% of DOD's total annual operational energy consumption, estimated to be about 1.2 billion gallons per year. Next-Gen Large Aircraft endeavors to meaningfully reduce fuel delivery logistical challenges, and prime the U.S. commercial aerospace sector to advance 21st century airframe designs in similar manner as military-developed aircraft primed commercial aircraft derivatives in the mid-20th century.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 640858_0604858F_4_3600_PB_2024
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