BETA Technologies, General Dynamics Collaborate “to Advance Next-Generation Undersea Propulsion”

BETA Tech­nolo­gies recent­ly announced it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with  Gen­er­al Dynam­ics Applied Phys­i­cal Sci­ences to sup­port a clas­si­fied project focused on devel­op­ing advanced propul­sion sys­tems for under­sea vehi­cles, reports a press release.

The release explains, “This pro­gram expands BETA’s elec­tro-mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing work beyond avi­a­tion, build­ing on  years of demon­strat­ed suc­cess pow­er­ing high-per­for­mance, high-reli­a­bil­i­ty air­craft. Under the  part­ner­ship, BETA will man­u­fac­ture and deliv­er hard­ware along with engi­neer­ing ser­vices.”

It con­tin­ues, “BETA’s work with the Depart­ment of Defence (DOD) spans mul­ti­ple years and mis­sion sets, includ­ing  oper­a­tional exper­i­men­ta­tion with the Air Force’s AFWERX and Agili­ty Prime pro­grams, as well as par­tic­i­pa­tion in sev­er­al invite-only joint mil­i­tary exer­cis­es with the Air Mobil­i­ty Com­mand and Air Com­bat Com­mand.” 

Kyle Clark, BETA’s Founder and CEO, com­ment­ed, “This part­ner­ship reflects the trust we’ve built through years of demon­strat­ed per­for­mance. From fly­ing across the coun­try on elec­tric pow­er to meet­ing the mis­sion needs of our mil­i­tary part­ners, we’ve shown what our propul­sion sys­tems can deliv­er in the air and now, we’re excit­ed to con­tribute to the next gen­er­a­tion of under­sea sys­tems.” 

BETA has devel­oped and flown its pro­pri­etary propul­sion sys­tem across mul­ti­ple air­frames,  includ­ing its ALIA CTOL and VTOL air­craft. These sys­tems are designed for long life, low  main­te­nance and high oper­a­tional reli­a­bil­i­ty. 

Kyle Clark

The release adds, “BETA’s air­craft demon­strat­ed an avail­abil­i­ty rate over 99 per­cent dur­ing mis­sion-dri­ven oper­a­tions and deploy­ments with the U.S mil­i­tary, includ­ing per­son­nel trans­port and crit­i­cal resup­ply at Duke Field, Eglin Air Force Base. 

“BETA is also the only com­pa­ny in the indus­try to have both U.S Army and Air Force test pilots fly its air­craft, an oper­a­tional mile­stone that val­i­dates the engi­neer­ing and per­for­mance of its sys­tems in mis­sion-rel­e­vant envi­ron­ments.”

It is rumoured by avi­a­tion web­site, aircurrent.com, that BETA is soon to float on the NYSE. Cer­tain­ly, a com­pa­ny worth invest­ing in.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://beta.team

https://www.gd.com

(Top image: BETA/General Dynam­ics)

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