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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Thinking ahead: Agility Prime kicks offPublished May 1, 2020
                    
                    By Staff Sgt. Jeremy L. Mosier
                    
                    
                    Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
            **WASHINGTON (AFNS) --**Despite the **COVID-19** pandemic, the Air Force and its partners pushed forward with the kickoff of **Agility Prime** this week.
The objective of the week’s events was to reinforce the Air Force’s commitment in partnering with industry, investors and the interagency to help ensure there is a robust domestic capability in the aerospace sector.
“Despite COVID-19, we're still very optimistic about the future, specifically around flying cars and how they might help the military and the world produce better logistics, better medical support and better disaster relief,” said **Dr. Will Roper**, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. “We really want to be engaged in this emerging market in a very different way.”
Working with industry partners will help turn what was once thought to be the impossible into a reality, benefiting both the military and civilian sector. The foreseen benefit being involved in the market of flying cars is the Air Force’s amassed experience in flying will help decrease the risk in testing and the amount of time to commercialize the product.
With a projection as early as 2023, Roper explained that Agility Prime is focused on the strong demand from the military mission on the emerging market and making it clear to investors, regulators and innovators in the tech space that the military wants to start purchasing these innovative vehicles for military missions as soon as they can.
There's an opportunity to find new uses of technology and explore new markets, said Col. Nathan Diller, Agility Prime team lead.
“Particularly in those public use cases where you might actually find a crisis like we're in right now,“ he said. “There’s a huge amount of utility in having vehicles like this and being able to do it in a way that energizes the industrial base in this new sector of our aeronautics while reducing the overall burden on the taxpayer.”
Although the Agility Prime kickoff was primarily focused on the development of innovative ideas, Roper sees the benefit being far greater in the future.
“I'm very passionate about finding a model where the government can work with commercial innovators in a way that maintains the dynamic innovation markets,” Roper said. “This will finally bring the full power of this nation, which is this commercial innovators and the stability of government together in a way that's beneficial.”FS 



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