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USAF Official Proposes Leasing Intellectual Property to Allies to Ramp Up Production

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USAF Official Proposes Leasing Intellectual Property to Allies to Ramp Up Production
Parker Downey, of Kittyhawk, and Terrence McKenna, an Air Force Reserve pilot with the 370th Flight Test Squadron and the Test and Experimentation lead for AFWERX Agility Prime, conduct preflight checks of a Heaveside aircraft before its first remotely controlled flight by an Air Force pilot at Kittyhawk's facility in Palo Alto, Calif. in December, 2021 (Kittyhawk Photo on U.S. Air Force Website)

A top U.S. Air Force official has broached allowing allies to use intellectual property for defense articles to ramp up their production overseas. "We are going to need to figure out incentivizing intellectual property, but also using it to scale," Air Force Lt. Gen. Clinton Hinote, the service’s deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements, told the Defense Innovation Board's (DIB) winter meeting on Feb. 1. Hinote gave the example of a U.S.-designed missile that allies could build…

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