
Leaders from across the U.S. Air Force, joined by Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, underlined the importance of revolutionary VTOL aircraft —and an associated U.S. industrial base — to the future of the military, speaking on the first day of the virtual kickoff of Agility Prime. Driven in part by the Pentagon’s self-admitted failure to secure domestic production of small unmanned aircraft, Agility Prime is the service’s effort to support massive commercial investment into electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft,…