{"id":106289,"date":"2020-04-30T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/air-force-wants-30-flying-cars-in-the-next-10-years"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:03:05","slug":"air-force-wants-30-flying-cars-in-the-next-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/air-force-wants-30-flying-cars-in-the-next-10-years","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Wants 30 Flying Cars in the Next 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-wants-30-flying-cars-in-the-next-10-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the vendors have a plan to have a pilot as well as autonomous operations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we have put our hand up and said, \u2018We want to accelerate this market so that it\u2019s dual-use, the military wants to buy the exact same vehicle that would be available domestically,\u2019 companies have shared with us privately that they have seen the amount of investment given by venture capitalists go up,\u201d Roper said. \u201cAnd they expect that that will continue the further we go through the door on competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force plans to request funding for flying car research in the fiscal 2022 budget request, in addition to the research funding the service already set aside for the experiment, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost of the vendors have a plan to have a pilot as well as autonomous operations,\u201d he added. \u201cSince we have put our hand up and said, \u2018We want to accelerate this market so that it\u2019s dual-use, the military wants to buy the exact same vehicle that would be available domestically,\u2019 companies have shared with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}