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Air Force

Agility Prime Awards New Contract to Software Company Tangram Flex

Kelsey Reichmann

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

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Agility Prime Awards New Contract to Software Company Tangram Flex

U.S. Air Force leadership watched a manned demonstration of LIFT Aircraft’s single-seat HEXA, one of fifteen companies contracted through Agility Prime’s Air Race to Certification. (Kenneth Swartz / eVTOL.news

Tangram Flex, an Ohio software company, has been awarded a new Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program that will be focusing on advancing the safety and cyber security of drones and air taxis included in the program, the company said in an Aug. 31 release. The company has previously been awarded an STTR contract in December for software integration and assurance tools to validate software components on Agility Prime vehicles, the company wrote…

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