e-Powered Portable Personal Air Mobility System

The Department of Defense is seeking the next generation of personnel transportation systems to maintain the cutting edge on the battlefield. An innovative personal air mobility system could fulfill a variety of military missions, including responsive movement of personnel, urban augmented combat, CSAR, spotting for fire support, maritime interdiction and rapid infiltration and exfiltration. However, most modern personal air mobility systems are not suited for these defense missions. TodayÆs personal air mobility systems have several problems: they are too loud, too slow, easily detected by IR, require use of both hands, require extensive training, and/or are foreign based and foreign owned companies. All these factors pose risk to the operator and limit the scalability of DoD use cases.