JOBY AVIATION EXPANDS DOD AFFILIATION
Future Flight|September 2022
California-based and Toyota-backed Joby Aviation, the builder of Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles, is expanding its existing contract with the US Air Force's Agility Prime programme, an initiative the service launched in 2020 to experiment, test and generally hasten the development of eVTOL for cross commercial and military use.
JOBY AVIATION EXPANDS DOD AFFILIATION

Joby's Department of Defence (DOD) contract now includes a partnership with the US Marine Corps, which will test the suitability of Joby's eVTOL to non-combat missions such as resupply, relocation of personnel, and emergency medical response. The whole of the US military community has cast curious and covetous eyes upon eVTOL, the nimbleness, small size, and relative silence of which are eminently conducive to the stealthy, small-scale operations the Pentagon deems critical to short-term, near-peer conflicts. What is more, eVTOĽ's green hue and progressive subtext are good for the optics of an Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps currently facing record-low recruitment numbers.

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