AirMap has been awarded a contract to provide UAS traffic management (UTM) services to the United States Air Force’s (USAF) Agility Prime program.

In preparation for scaling of advanced air mobility operations, the USAF will use AirMap’s UTM platform to support testing of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

“AirMap is proud to partner with the USAF to provide industry-leading UTM services for advanced air mobility operations,” says Larry Berkin, GM of the AirMap Defense Group, an AirMap business unit focused on providing mission-critical technologies to the US Department of Defense.

“We are excited to support all of the Agility Prime participants as they build, test, and bring their eVTOLs to market.”

A non-traditional program seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles, Agility Prime was launched recently by the USAF, who plans to mitigate current commercial market and regulatory risks by leveraging unique testing resources and government use cases for distributed logistics and disaster response.

The air vehicles tested throughout the program will be used for a variety of operations such as shuttling security forces across missile fields and search-and-rescue and logistics missions.

AFWERX awarded AirMap a $1 million Direct to Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to provide its UTM platform for Agility Prime.