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“Lt. Gen. (Ret) Joins Archer Defence’s Advisory Board” 

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week that Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al (Ret) Scott How­ell has joined the company’s Advi­so­ry Board to help guide the new­ly cre­at­ed Archer Defence busi­ness unit, reports a press release. 

The goal is to lever­age the company’s exper­tise in air­craft devel­op­ment, advanced flight con­trols and scal­able man­u­fac­tur­ing, to deliv­er next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft for defence appli­ca­tions. The first project, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Anduril, is to devel­op a hybrid-propul­sion VTOL air­craft.

Lt. Gen. (Ret) Scott How­ell is a high­ly dec­o­rat­ed retired mil­i­tary leader whose time in ser­vice spanned Iraq, Afghanistan, the Pen­ta­gon and the White House. The release states, “He helped accel­er­ate the military’s organ­i­sa­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion while lead­ing 14,000 Spe­cial Oper­a­tions forces glob­al­ly as the 15th Com­man­der of Joint Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand.” 

It con­tin­ues, “Pre­vi­ous­ly, as Vice Com­man­der for the U.S Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand, he helped secure the largest-ever bud­get for the country’s most elite warfight­ers. Now in the pri­vate sec­tor, How­ell will con­tin­ue his work with Gen­er­al Cat­a­lyst as an advi­sor focused on mod­ern defence and intel­li­gence.”

Adam Gold­stein, co-Founder and CEO of Archer, com­ment­ed, “The launch of Archer Defence marks a sig­nif­i­cant moment for both the com­pa­ny and the eVTOL indus­try. With Scott’s sup­port, we’re con­fi­dent that we can accel­er­ate inno­va­tion with­in mil­i­tary avi­a­tion, tip­ping the scales fur­ther in America’s favour.”

Lt. Gen. How­ell remarked, “I’m proud to join Archer as they accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of advanced tech­nolo­gies for the defence sec­tor. I see incred­i­ble poten­tial to con­tin­ue advanc­ing that mis­sion.”

The Archer Advi­so­ry Board already com­pris­es of six retired for­mer army lead­ers. They include 3‑star Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al David A. Krumm; 2‑star Gen­er­al Clay­ton M. Hut­mach­er; 2‑star Gen­er­al Bill Gayler; and 4‑star Gen­er­al Steve Townsend.

Mean­while, Archer has now com­plet­ed con­struc­tion of its high-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia named ARC and received its cer­tifi­cate of occu­pan­cy. 

Con­nect­ed to the Cov­ing­ton Munic­i­pal Air­port in Geor­gia, pro­duc­tion is planned to begin ear­ly this year, with the goal of ramp­ing to a rate of two air­craft per month by the end of 2025.

Bri­an Kemp, the Geor­gia Gov­er­nor, com­ment­ed, “This announce­ment marks the next step in the company’s jour­ney and reaf­firms Georgia’s com­mit­ment to work­ing with inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies like Archer to cre­ate qual­i­ty jobs and oppor­tu­ni­ties for years to come.” 

Con­gress­man Mike Collins of Geor­gia who sits on the House Com­mit­tee on Trans­porta­tion and the Infra­struc­ture and Com­mit­tee on Sci­ence, Space, and Tech­nol­o­gy added, “I am excit­ed to sup­port this trans­for­ma­tive chap­ter in avi­a­tion. It will dri­ve progress, deliv­er eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits for Geor­gia and cre­ate oppor­tu­ni­ty for every­one involved with and around this facil­i­ty.”

Adam Gold­stein remarked, “With con­struc­tion on ARC now com­plete, it’s all about exe­cu­tion and scal­ing. I can’t wait to see our facil­i­ty begin pro­duc­ing air­craft.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com 

https://defense.archer.com

(Images: Archer Avi­a­tion)

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