NASA and Agility Prime to join forces and develop Advanced Air Mobility supply chain

NASA’s Aero­nau­tics Research Insti­tute (NARI) and the US Air Force’s Agili­ty Prime pro­gramme are to col­lab­o­rate togeth­er and devel­op an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) sup­ply chain, which can ‘scale as the mar­ket matures’.

A RFI (Request for Infor­ma­tion), seeks infor­ma­tion about com­pa­ny’s man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties and offers firms the oppor­tu­ni­ty to join NASA’s Aero­space Sup­ply Chain Work­ing Group.

The AAM sup­ply chain con­sists of all par­ties includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, OEMs, design­ers, pro­to­typ­ing shops, avi­a­tion parts man­u­fac­tur­ers, main­te­nance, repair, and over­haul (MRO) firms, acad­e­mix insti­tu­tions, and firms that have not tra­di­tion­al­ly sup­plied avi­a­tion but may be able to con­tribute to the mar­ket.

The RFI added that auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers or OEMs, heavy machin­ery sup­pli­ers and man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy firms may also wish to offer infor­ma­tion as well.

It says: “The intent is to map and share the cur­rent AAM sup­ply chain via an elec­tric plat­form, mod­el and sim­u­late the net­work’s abil­i­ty to scale, and ensure that the indus­try has the human cap­i­tal to meet future needs. The elec­tron­ic plat­form, and mod­el­ling and sim­u­la­tion capa­bil­i­ties will also help con­nect orig­i­nal equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers (OEMs) with cur­rent and aspir­ing aero­space sup­pli­ers.”

NASA and Agili­ty Prime will seek infor­ma­tion and view­points such as sources of fund­ing, pro­duc­tion capa­bil­i­ties, pro­duc­tion focus and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions.

A meet­ing to kick off the AAM Sup­ply Chain Work­ing Group will be on Thurs­day, 13th August from 11am — 1pm EDT.

For more infor­ma­tion about the RFI, vis­it https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/aamsupplychain