Joby and Air Space Intelligence Partner to Prepare U.S. Airspace for Scaled Electric Flight

Joby Avi­a­tion and Air Space Intel­li­gence (ASI) have announced a part­ner­ship to accel­er­ate the inte­gra­tion of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty into the U.S. Nation­al Air­space Sys­tem.

Build­ing on ASI’s Fly­ways AI Plat­form – an open AI-pow­ered air­space intel­li­gence plat­form that uses high-fideli­ty 4D mod­el­ing to opti­mize flight oper­a­tions – Joby and ASI plan to work togeth­er to advance how scaled eVTOL oper­a­tions can be safe­ly inte­grat­ed into dynam­ic, increas­ing­ly com­plex and high-traf­fic air­space. Joint demon­stra­tions, includ­ing live oper­a­tional exer­cis­es, are expect­ed lat­er this year.

Greg Bowles, Chief Pol­i­cy Offi­cer, Joby Avi­a­tion, said: “Amer­i­ca has long set the glob­al stan­dard for avi­a­tion, and mod­ern­iz­ing our air­space is key to main­tain­ing that lead­er­ship.

“By com­bin­ing Joby’s oper­a­tional capa­bil­i­ties with ASI’s advanced AI-dri­ven Fly­ways plat­form, we’re help­ing build the intel­li­gent infra­struc­ture need­ed to inte­grate elec­tric air taxis seam­less­ly into the NAS — one of Amer­i­ca’s most impor­tant nation­al assets.”

Togeth­er, the com­pa­nies will lever­age Joby’s oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence and air­craft capa­bil­i­ties along­side ASI’s AI-dri­ven air­space intel­li­gence to devel­op joint solu­tions that demon­strate how eVTOL oper­a­tions can scale safe­ly with­in the exist­ing air­space frame­work. Ini­tial results from the part­ner­ship’s live oper­a­tional exer­cis­es are expect­ed by the end of 2026.

With the FAA’s Brand New Air Traf­fic Con­trol Sys­tem (BNATCS) set to form the foun­da­tion for the next gen­er­a­tion of air traf­fic man­age­ment, the part­ner­ship will also explore how more auto­mat­ed, soft­ware-defined approach­es to air­space coor­di­na­tion can enable increas­ing­ly autonomous flight oper­a­tions.

Bernard Asare, Pres­i­dent, Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Air Space Intel­li­gence, added: “Scal­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty requires more than new air­craft — it requires a new oper­at­ing sys­tem for the air­space.

“Our Fly­ways AI plat­form gives oper­a­tors and con­trollers the pre­dic­tive aware­ness to coor­di­nate high-den­si­ty oper­a­tions proac­tive­ly, not reac­tive­ly. This part­ner­ship brings that same capa­bil­i­ty to eVTOL oper­a­tions from day one.”

Last month, Joby com­plet­ed a series of pilot­ed demon­stra­tion flights across the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, show­cas­ing the com­pa­ny’s oper­a­tional readi­ness.

Joby was also recent­ly select­ed as a part­ner in mul­ti­ple win­ning appli­ca­tions under the White House-backed eVTOL Inte­gra­tion Pilot Pro­gram (eIPP). Through the pro­gram, Joby has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to begin ear­ly oper­a­tions this year in 12 states, mark­ing a major mile­stone for the U.S. air taxi indus­try and poten­tial­ly accel­er­at­ing Joby’s path to com­mer­cial ser­vice.

Air Space Intel­li­gence is an Amer­i­can AI com­pa­ny whose dual-use plat­form pow­ers crit­i­cal deci­sion-mak­ing in the most demand­ing domains: from air traf­fic man­age­ment and logis­tics to grid plan­ning and mil­i­tary logis­tics. Its plat­form active­ly man­ages over 40 per cent of all US air traf­fic and pow­ers live defense oper­a­tions.

ASI is lead­ing oper­a­tional trans­for­ma­tion and deliv­er­ing mis­sion-crit­i­cal deci­sion-mak­ing sys­tems to avi­a­tion, defense, logis­tics, and ener­gy orga­ni­za­tions oper­at­ing in dynam­ic, com­plex envi­ron­ments.

The part­ner­ship with Joby extends ASI’s proven air­space intel­li­gence capa­bil­i­ties to the emerg­ing eVTOL sec­tor, help­ing ensure that as elec­tric flight oper­a­tions grow, the air­space sys­tem is ready to sup­port them safe­ly and effi­cient­ly.