Joby S4-T: The High-T Warfighter eVTOL ✈️💪

Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) had announced back in August, 2025 that they teamed up to explore the opportunities for a hybrid VTOL aircraft using gas turbines for low-altitude missions. On August 7, Joby released images of this hybrid-electric eVTOL named “S4-T VTOL“. The S4-T hybrid eVTOL aircraft will be manufactured for defense contracts, and potentially provide the capabilities of switching between unmanned autonomous flight and piloted flights. The S4-T aircraft revealed by Joby did not have a human pilot on board, since the aircraft was in the autonomous configuration.

Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt attended an event on November 7, 2025 in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave a speech at the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. The speech was made in front of an audience of defense industry executives, outlining the Secretary of War’s goals for a more streamlined and efficient procurement process of military hardware.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks at the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. (video below):

“The DoD has requested $9.4 billion in the FY26 budget to advance uncrewed and remotely operated aircraft. And we see significant opportunity for Joby and our partners as our path to certification and commercialization becomes increasingly clear. Our next challenge will be scaling production capacity to meet demand. And as I’ve said before, this is not an easy task, but it is one that we’re well placed to tackle. I’m incredibly proud of the progress we’ve already made to establish conforming production lines. And with our first TIA aircraft moving to final assembly, I’m confident we’re leading the way.” – JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO, Joby Aviation (Joby Aviation Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call)

“Through partnerships with new entrants and investments in venture-backed companies, we’re transforming cutting-edge technology into mission-ready capability – ensuring our warfighters have unparalleled solutions ready today. Together with Secretary of War Hegseth and Deputy Secretary of War Feinberg, our workforce is acting with urgency and accountability to deliver the “Arsenal of Freedom” our nation depends on.” – L3Harris Chair and CEO Chris Kubasik

Real Use Cases for eVTOLs

The Rand Corporation outlined the use cases for eVTOLs in the military.

Specifically the time saved when security and other military personnel would travel by aircraft instead of ground vehicles, was measured. Locations included in the study were Malstrom AFB, travel around bases in Poland, and in the Phillipines.

Malstrom AFB

Looking at Malstrom AFB, RAND made a statistical summary of the time it takes to travel from MAFs (Missile Alert Facilities) to missile silos by driving versus flying. Ultimately, the goal was to discover the amount of time saved by flying. A median time savings of 1.04 hours was found.

Poland

The Rand Corporation also evaluated the time savings for US Forces based in Poland, with the findings indicating a median time savings of 3.43 hours when US military personnel traveled by air.

Cost effectiveness

Rand’s report also compared the different modes of air travel, as well as a V6 version of a Ford F-150 along various parameters. The most interesting were the cost per nautical mile, acquisition price, and cost per passenger seat per nautical mile. With a low of $2.39 and a high of $3.41 per passenger seat per nautical mile, eVTOL OEMs like Joby plan to eventually bring the cost down to $1.00 per passenger seat per nautical mile.

Going the Distance

AFWERX, the organization within the Department of Air Force responsible for supporting innovation, has been vocal within the past two years of their desire for a longer range eVTOL.

“Building on eVTOL testing insights from FY24, AFWERX is transitioning to focus on hybrid-electric aircraft to enhance military logistics and operational flexibility, aligning with Agile Combat Employment strategies.” – 2024 AFWERX Annual Report

“We’re always balancing priorities and budgeting, but certainly the future is going to be in hybrid systems.” – Lt. Col. Jonathan Gilbert, Prime Division Chief in an interview with Aviation Week on Dec. 13. 2024

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

On June 24, 2024 Joby flew their hydrogen fuel cell powered S4 aircraft that was built in cooperation with their Stuttgart, Germany-based subsidiary H2FLY, which was acquired by Joby in 2021. The aircraft originally was an all-electric pre-production S4 prototype that was converted with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank and fuel cell system. This hydrogen fuel cell powered S4 was able to fly 523 miles with 10% of its liquid hydrogen fuel reserves remaining.

Historic 523 mile flight of hydrogen-electric Joby S4 demonstrator (video below):

H2FLY

• Founded in 2015 by Professor Dr. Josef Kallo and 4 other engineers at the University of Ulm and the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Based in Stuttgart, Germany
• Acquired by Joby in April 2021
• Accomplished world’s first piloted flight of a liquid hydrogen-powered electric aircraft in September 2023, using H2FLY’s  HY4 demonstrator aircraft in Maribor, Slovenia
• Dr. Josef Kallo was part of the team who launched the world’s first piloted aircraft using 100% hydrogen fuel cells power on July 7, 2009
• 523 mile flight of a Joby S4 powered by hydrogen fuel cells on June 24, 2024 (built by Joby and H2FLY)
• Supported by AFWERX Agility Prime

“Agility Prime has been very supportive of hydrogen-powered aircraft development and testing as it aligns with the program’s goals to advance transformative vertical lift technologies and broader Department of Defense operational energy goals of energy substitution and diversification, and energy demand reduction.” – Jacob Wilson, (Acting) Branch Chief, AFWERX Agility Prime

Gas Turbine Hybrid-Electric (Joby S4-T Hybrid VTOL)

“We have worked closely with the Department of Defense over the past decade to give them a front row seat to the development of our dual-purpose technologies, and we’re now ready to demonstrate and deploy it. Our country depends on companies like ours moving at pace, and we have the team, the technology and the platform to do just that.” – JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO, Joby Aviation

“The next-generation of vertical lift technology enables long-range, crewed-uncrewed teaming for a range of missions. We share a vision with Joby to deliver urgently-required innovation by missionizing VTOL aircraft for defense needs.” – Jon Rambeau, President, Integrated Mission Systems, L3Harris

Pivoting towards hybrid eVTOLs, when Joby Aviation is known mostly for its all-electric S4 eVTOL is actually not surprising when you consider the direction the eVTOL industry is heading. As eVTOL buzz has previously reported, OEMs such as Horizon Aircraft (NASDAQ: HOVR) and XTI Aerospace have been very outspoken about the positive characteristics of hybrid-electric propulsion systems. The higher power, range, speed, reliability at sub zero temperatures, fuel availability and time-proven designs, are real world factors that militaries all over the world cannot ignore.

S4 as a “Platform”

“Joby is actively developing a gas turbine hybrid powertrain for its current S4 aircraft platform and has demonstrated aircraft-level autonomy following its acquisition of the autonomy division of Xwing in June 2024. It has previously demonstrated under government contract that its platform can be hybridized to deliver longer-ranges, showcasing an industry-first 561 mile hydrogen-electric hybrid flight in June 2024.”

– Joby Aviation in Aug 1, 2025 press release

The Joby S4 is actually a “platform” rather than a mere eVTOL model. By having an S4 “platform” various configurations of powertrains can be utilized depending on the purpose and requirements of the operator. This makes the Joby S4 very cost effective and eliminates waste. Every S4 aircraft is a versatile, and has the potential to become all-electric, gas hybrid, or hydrogen fuel cell powered. No S4 aircraft within this S4 “platform” will be condemned to permanently stay in one platform, if the need ever arises for an aircraft to utilize a different powertrain system.

While there is no intent by eVTOL buzz to minimize the work and effort involved in such a conversion from an all-electric (battery) version of the S4 eVTOL to a hydrogen powered S4, or gas turbine powered S4, the fact that it is possible to change the configuration of the S4 power source demonstrates the forward thinking of the Joby designers and flexibility of the aircraft.

Military Intel: Intelligent Artificial Intelligence

Now, we explain how L3Harris will enter the picture.

What L3Harris brings to the table:

L3Harris brings a lot to the table in terms of expertise in autonomous aircraft and its Smart Swarm technology. With military aircraft and other “assets” heading towards autonomous systems, Joby couldn’t have found a better partner than L3Harris. Not only does L3Harris have decades of experience in the defense industry, with many long-standing and deep connections with key-decision makers, but L3Harris also has developed FVR Unmanned Aerial systems, and AMORPHOUS™ open-architecture platform for key capabilities including Smart Swarms.

L3HARRIS

• $21B+ Company with many capabilities:
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Command and Control
  • Electronic Warfare
  • ISR and SIGINT
  • Missile Warning and Defense
  • Resilient Communications and Networks
• Works on autonomous  FVR (Fixed-Wing, VTOL, Rotary) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
  • FVR-90 Airframe
• Will work with Joby on sensors, aircraft autonomy, and other tech related to VTOLs
• building Smart Swarm technology through its AMORPHOUS™ open-architecture platform

AMORPHOUS™ autonomous system (from L3Harris)

In a March 2025 article titled: “The next era of autonomous defense” by Jon Rambeau, President of Integrated Mission Systems, L3Harris Technologies, he explains that despite the great success the industry has made with autonomous “assets” such as UAVs, and other vehicles, there was a great need to be able to control thousands of these autonomous “assets” simultaneously as part of a greater mission capability. With L3Harris being an industry “Trusted Disruptor” in the defense industry with decades of experience in autonomy, allowed them to fill this need of simultaneous asset control and coordination to create the Smart Swarm technology necessary to achieve this goal.

“Autonomous systems have matured across air, sea and subsurface domains, but the challenge remains: how do we operate not just a handful, but thousands of autonomous assets simultaneously and effectively?”

“To meet this challenge, we developed AMORPHOUS™ , an open-architecture system designed to scale and manage thousands of autonomous assets at once. With AMORPHOUS, we are pushing the boundaries of autonomous control and tackling today’s most pressing challenges in large-scale autonomy.” – Jon Rambeau, President of Integrated Mission Systems, L3Harris Technologies in a March 2025 article titled: “The next era of autonomous defense”

AMORPHOUS™

• Open-architecture system purposely built to scale and manage thousands of autonomous air, ground and naval vehicles simultaneously
• Offers:
  • Open Architecture
    • flexibility
    • interoperability
  • Scalability (up to thousands of assets)
  • Multi-domain
  • Smart Swarm technology
  • Single User operation
  • Sensor processing & fusion
  • Transferable control enables true distributed C2
  • Counter-Unmanned Air Systems capabilities

Video showing AMORPHOUS™ capabilities:

L3Harris’ Partner in the Defense Industry:

Defense Innovation Unit

• The only DoD agency solely dedicated to deploying and growing commercial technology at commercial rates throughout the U.S. military
• Works with L3Harris to implement AMORPHOUS™ throughout the military

Joby’s accomplishments and progress so far:

Joby has been developing its own autonomous programs, especially after acquiring 2 key companies: Austrian-based INRAS, and the Californian-based autonomy division of Xwing.

Joby Aviation

• Headquartered in Santa Cruz, California
• NYSE: JOBY
• major eVTOL manufacturer
• Manufacturer of:
  • S4 eVTOL aircraft (all-electric)
  • S4-T hybrid-electric eVTOL aircraft
• S4-T hybrid-electric version is currently testing a hydrogen-electric version
• First transition of a full-scale, prototype aircraft on 2017
• First piloted transition flight on April 22, 2025
• Acquired INFRAS in 2021 and the autonomy division of Xwing in 2024
• Received a total of $894 million in investment from Toyota
• Has obtained numerous defense contracts with the Pentagon and collaborates on testing of its eVTOL aircraft
• Over 40,000 miles flown across S4 eVTOL fleet

INRAS

• Based in Linz, Austria
• Acquired by Joby on December 21, 2021
• Co-founded by Andreas Haderer and Andreas Stelzer
• Expertise in radiofrequency (RF) systems design, advanced radar sensors, processing boards, and real-time signal processing
• Leaders in airborne sensing and autonomy

“We have been continually impressed with Inras since we began working with them to develop custom radar systems for our aircraft.”…..“They are leaders in solving the challenges associated with airborne sensing and autonomy and we are excited to welcome them to Joby as we move toward integrating more advanced detection capabilities in the future.” – JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby.

XWING (autonomy division)

• Founded in 2016
• Based in Concord, California
• Acquired by Joby in 2024
• Worked on autonomous aircraft since 2020
• First company to obtain large unmanned aerial system (UAS) certification from the FAA (April 2023)
• First company from AFWERX’s Autonomy Prime program to obtain Air Force Military Flight Release in 2024 as a Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated Public Aircraft Operation (PAO) in unrestricted airspace
• Created Superpilot™ software for autonomous flights
• Over 300 fully autonomous flights and 500 auto-landings
• Received $15 Million from AFWERX to continue Superpilot™ program on July 31, 2025
• participlated in:
  • Agile Flag 24-1
    • 2,800 miles of fully autonomous flight
  • Agile Flag 24-3 (as part of Joby)
    • 3,900 miles of fully autonomous flight
  • ReFORPAC 2025
    • 7,342 miles of fully autonomous flight

After acquiring the autonomy division of Xwing in June 2024, Joby was able to capitalize on the expertise of this leading autonomous aerospace company and harness their tech, which includes Xwing’s Superpilot™ software for the Joby S4’s autonomous flight capabilities.

“Xwing’s goal of connecting communities with clean and affordable autonomous flight aligns closely with Joby’s long-term vision. I am incredibly proud of each member of the Xwing team and everything this talented group has achieved to date. For the past 7 years, our team has broken barriers to advance aviation autonomy. Now, as we join forces with the leading electric air-taxi developer, I can’t imagine a better home for the Xwing team to realize our shared vision.” – Maxime Gariel, co-founder, President and Chief Technical Officer, Xwing

“The aircraft we are certifying will have a fully-qualified pilot on board, but we recognize that a future generation of autonomous aircraft will play an important part in unlocking our vision of making clean and affordable aerial mobility as accessible as possible…..The exceptionally talented Xwing team has not only made unparalleled progress on the development and certification of vision systems, sensor fusion and decision-making autonomous technologies, but they’ve also successfully demonstrated the real-life application of their technology, flying hundreds of fully autonomous flights in the national airspace. We’re honored to bring them onboard at Joby as we continue on our mission of building a next generation aviation company.” – JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO

Xwing’s Superpilot

Joby and Xwing’s partners within US Department of Defense:

412th Test Wing

• Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California
• Operations group of 3,000 personnel
• Maintenance group of 2,000 personnel
• Collaborating on testing with Joby on the S4 eVTOL

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

• Main scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force
• 12,500 employees across nine technology areas
• Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (home of the Wright brothers)
• Technology directorates:
  • 711th Human Performance Wing
  • 711th HPW/USAF School of Aerospace Medicine
  • 711th HPW/Human Effectiveness
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  • AFWERX
  • Directed Energy
  • Information
  • Integrated Capabilities
  • Materials & Manufacturing
  • Munitions
  • Sensors
  • Space Vehicles

AFWERX

• Program the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
• Innovation arm of the Dept of Air Force
• Connects innovators across government, industry and academia
• 1,8881 companies transitioned to Phase III ($7.5 B)
• 2,665 new companies included in small business portfolio of Department of Air Force (DAF)
• Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio
• 3 Hubs
  • Austin, Texas
  • Washington, DC
  • Los Angeles, California

Agility Prime (AFWERX)

• Founded in 2019
• Vertical lift and landing (VTOL) development program run by the Department of the Air Force in collaboration with the Army
• Provided small business partners more than 60 contracts totaling more than $390 million in the eVTOL and hybrid VTOL market
• 14 billion injected into private-sector commercial investment in the AAM industry
• Joby Aviation performs testing with the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, California
• Facilitated XWING obtaining Air Force Military Flight Release in 2024 (the first in AFWERX’s Autonomy Prime program)
• Supports Joby’s hydrogen-powered aircraft testing

AFWERX’s Agility Prime also works with Joby on its hydrogen-powered eVTOL as well as with its all-electric S4 eVTOL aircraft.

“Agility Prime has been very supportive of hydrogen-powered aircraft development and testing as it aligns with the program’s goals to advance transformative vertical lift technologies and broader Department of Defense operational energy goals of energy substitution and diversification, and energy demand reduction.” – Jacob Wilson, (Acting) Branch Chief, AFWERX Agility Prime

Autonomy Prime (AFWERX)

• Focuses on:
  • Autonomy Proving Grounds
    • Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) test beds
    • Multi-program high-performance computing and data pipeline
  • Robotics Software Architecture
    • Sensing/Positioning
    • Multi-Agent Teaming
    • Inter-Robotics Comms Architecture
  • Strategic Operations
    • Multi-Sensing Swarming UAS
    • Rapid autonomy kits
    • Long-Range Kill Web (LRKW)
    • Attritable Intelligence
  • Enabling Technologies
    • Computer Vision, Collaborative Autonomy, Multi-Sensor Fusion, Low Cost Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
    • Mission capabilities for early risk reduction
      • Alternative Positioning
      • Navigation & Timing (Alt-PNT)

“Autonomous systems are increasingly prolific in the private sector, and bring potentially game changing advantages to the Air Force as well.”…. “We created Autonomy Prime to keep up with this shift, and to stay engaged as a partner while this technology evolves, so that we can adapt and evolve along with the private sector, maintaining our competitive advantage.” – Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force

ReFORPAC 2025

During the exercise, Joby’s Superpilot™ autonomous system successfully operated a Cessna 208 Caravan on multiple long-distance flights over the Pacific Ocean and Hawaiian airspace. The autonomous Superpilot™ system logged 43.7 flight hours, covering a total distance of 7,342 miles. The Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft conducted six sorties, flying for 14 hours and traveling 2,416 miles. Additionally, the mission involved a roundtrip ferry flight spanning 4,925 miles, during which Superpilot™ successfully executed a trans-Pacific crossing, including landings and taxi operations at the designated airports. Remarkably, some flights were controlled remotely from ground stations located thousands of miles away in Guam, demonstrating Joby’s ability to manage aircraft remotely over vast distances.

ReFORPAC 2025

• Occurred between July 10 – August 8, 2025
• Air Force’s largest Pacific contingency-response exercise
• Multiple locations in the Pacific:
  • Hawai’i 🇺🇸
  • Guam 🇬🇺
  • Japan 🇯🇵 (home of Joby’s partner Toyota)
  • International airspace 🇺🇳
• Joby’s autonomous flights occurred July 24-30, 2025

The missions carried out by the modified Cessna 208 Caravan covered a range of scenarios, including rapid cargo transport within a theater of operations, dynamic mission changes, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tasks. These flights took place in diverse airspace environments, from controlled Class B, C, and D airspaces to uncontrolled areas, under both visual and instrument flight rules. This wide operational envelope underlines the versatility and reliability of Joby’s autonomous system.

The U.S. Air Force currently faces a challenge in efficiently supporting low-volume, high-urgency and high-risk deliveries in large operational theaters. The REFORPAC exercise validated that a light cargo aircraft, equipped with Superpilot, can meet this demand, while freeing up larger, more costly aircraft for other missions. 

AGILE FLAG 24-3

Joby was asked by AFWERX Autonomy Prime to demonstrate autonomous flight during AGILE FLAG 24-3 and demonstrate to Air Force leaders how autonomous aviation can support the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept. A proactive and reactive operational system of movement, ACE is used to generate combat power and improve survivability within threat timelines. Joby used this occasion to showcase an autonomous Cessna 208B Grand Caravan taking off and landing from multiple air bases and public airports across California and Nevada which flights totaled 3,900 miles. Airports such as Mojave Air and Space Port, and air bases like Edwards Air Force Base, California were utilized in this exercise. These autonomous technologies were developed by Xwing’s autonomy team, which was bought out by Joby in June 2024 and had already flown over 200 flights by the time of that acquisition.

In the previous exercise “Agile Flag 24-1“, Xwing accomplished 2,800 miles of fully autonomous flight, proving its skill in operating autonomous aircraft during difficult conditions such as: congested airspace, sloped runways, night operations, and landing at airports with non-existent infrastructure.

In both Agile Flag 24-1 and 24-3, Xwing and later Joby with its recently acquired Xwing autonomy team, the autonomous aircraft transported essential supplies at these numerous Air Force assets.

“We were pleased to continue demonstrating the capabilities of our autonomy technology during Agile Flag 24-3, where we completed dozens of fully autonomous aerial missions and showcased an ability to perform rapid resupply. We look forward to continuing to work with the U.S. Air Force as we further develop the suite of technologies that could enable greater automation or full autonomy, first on the Caravan and then on numerous other aircraft types.” – Maxime Gariel, Autonomy Lead at Joby

Joby also demonstrated its capability to oversee the aircraft from a distance using a laptop and a satellite communications terminal, both of which can be conveniently carried in a single backpack.

“The return on investment for the U.S. Air Force with this technology is significant. By using it to handle smaller cargo, we can preserve cargo aircraft for more critical tasks like transporting large parts or engines.” …“This not only enhances the overall capability of the cargo fleet but also ensures they are used where they are most needed.” – said Col. Max Bremer, Air Mobility Command Special Access Program management officer

Joby’s purchase of Xwing’s autonomy division, along with its ongoing in-house advancement of autonomy technology, illustrates the company’s dedication to creating next-generation technologies that could enhance safety and broaden access to commercial aviation. Furthermore, Joby anticipates that this technology will significantly contribute to the timely fulfillment of current contract obligations with the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as increase opportunities for future contracts.

Photos A & B: Joby’s Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

Photo C: Xwing’s ground control station during AGILE FLAG 24-1
(U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

Photo D: Joby’s ground control station during AGILE FLAG 24-3
(U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

Joby’s Partnership with NVIDIA

At the end of October 2025, Joby Aviation named NVIDIA as its strategic autonomy partner, thereby becoming the launch aviation customer for NVIDIA’s new IGX Thor platform, designed to power next-generation AI computing at the edge. Joby became the first eVTOL OEM to incorporate NVIDIA’s Thor platform into its aircraft.

NVIDIA Blackwell GPU

The NVIDIA Blackwell GPU is the most powerful graphics processor ever created, delivering up to 20 petaFLOPS of compute on a single chip. Its architecture packs an immense amount of processing capability by combining advanced GPU cores, high-speed memory, and next-generation interconnects. By integrating features such as optimized transformer engines and energy-efficient compute units, Blackwell enables extremely fast AI training and inference, handling large-scale workloads more efficiently than previous generations.

Blackwell AI GPU

• Largest GPU ever built
  • 208 billion transistors
  • 2.5x number of transistors compared to it’s predecessor (NVIDIA
    Hopper GPU)
• Highest compute ever recorded on a single chip (20 petaFLOPS)

NVIDIA’s THOR

NVIDIA’s Blackwell-based platform (IGX Thor) is designed for high-throughput AI-inference at the edge, with high reliability and safety targets. For example, in a parallel announcement for robotics applications, Jetson AGX Thor achieved 7.5 times the AI compute of it’s predecessor and 3.5 times the energy efficiency. While the aircraft environment differs, the compute demands (sensor fusion, perception, mission logic, health monitoring) are similar.

“The autonomous systems under development at Joby are poised to complement human intelligence by providing speed, precision, and stamina beyond what a person alone is capable of. To achieve this, an aircraft needs a powerful onboard computer that can interpret extraordinary amounts of information to make decisions in real-time. Combining NVIDIA’s compute power with our world-class aircraft design, certification and rigorous flight testing capabilities, we’re enabling a new era of safety-first autonomy in aviation.” – Gregor Veble Mikić, Flight Research Lead at Joby

Joby specifically calls out capabilities such as:

• Autonomous Mission Management (dynamic flight path, ATC, weather, unexpected events)
• Radar, LiDAR, vision sensor fusion and perception
• Predictive system health/ maintenance monitoring and digital twin modelling

NVIDIA

• Headquartered in Santa Clara, California
• Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem
• NASDAQ: NVDA
• CEO: Jensen Huang
• Revenue: 60.92 billion USD (2024)
• Products:
  • Chips & Hardware Platforms
    • NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture (B100, B200, GB200, etc.) – Next-gen GPU architecture for AI, data centers, and HPC workloads
    • NVIDIA Thor – AI superchip designed for autonomous vehicles, eVTOLS, robotics, and edge computing (successor to Drive Orin)
    • NVIDIA Grace CPU / Grace Hopper Superchip – ARM-based CPU and combined CPU-GPU platform for data centers
    • NVIDIA RTX GPUs – Consumer and professional GPUs for gaming, AI, and visualization (e.g., RTX 5090, RTX A6000
    • NVIDIA Jetson – Edge AI and robotics modules for embedded computing
  • Software & Services
    • NVIDIA CUDA – Parallel computing platform and API for GPU acceleration
    • NVIDIA AI Enterprise – End-to-end AI software suite for training and deploying AI on NVIDIA hardware
    • NVIDIA Omniverse – Platform for 3D simulation, collaboration, and digital twins
    • NVIDIA DGX Cloud – Cloud service offering access to NVIDIA AI supercomputers
    • NVIDIA DRIVE – Autonomous vehicle computing and software ecosystem

Autonomy and Longer Range

With both INRAS and the autonomous division of Xwing already in its portfolio, Joby can leverage its own expertise with that of L3Harris to create a superior hybrid-electric eVTOL package to the US military and its allies throughout the world, and use the R&D and revenue to fund and improve its private and commercial civilian offerings. The NVIDIA collaboration is icing on the cake, and provides Joby a full spectrum of autonomy and AI technology to ensure they can maintain their S4 aircraft development at the hyper-speed they have accomplished thus far.

✈️ Stay tuned to eVTOL buzz for test flight updates, tech deep dives, and exclusive interviews as this story evolves.

More Info:

Joby Press Release: Joby Celebrates First Flight of Turbine Electric Demonstrator Aircraft: click here

NVIDIA’s Thor Brings More Thunder to Joby’s Electric Air Taxi: click here

Joby Press Release – Joby Collaborates With L3Harris to Pursue Defense Applications for Autonomous Hybrid VTOL Aircraft: click here

L3Harris Press Release – Joby Collaborates with L3Harris to Pursue Defense Applications for Autonomous VTOL Aircraft: click here

AMORPHOUS™ : click here

L3Harris Air Autonomous systems: click here

IMS President Jon Rambeau: The Next Era of Autonomous Defense: click here

L3Harris Selected to Develop Autonomous Swarms Prototype: click here

L3Harris and Shield Capital Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Defense, Commercial Technology Solutions: click here

Press Release – Joby Acquires Xwing Autonomy Division, Looks Ahead to Autonomous Flight: click here

Air Force Awards Xwing Military Approval to Fly Autonomous Air Force Cargo Missions Across California: click here

AFWERX official website: click here

AFWERX Agility Prime – A New Era of Aerospace: click here

Joby demonstrates potential for emissions-free regional journeys with landmark 523-mile hydrogen-electric flight: click here

AFWERX Autonomy Prime: click here

Autonomous aviation transforms logistics during AGILE FLAG 24-3 exercise: click here

Joby Demonstrates Autonomous Flight in United States Air Force ‘Agile Flag’ Exercise: click here

Joby Expands Partnership with US Department of Defense: click here

AFWERX Autonomy Prime, Xwing partner for autonomous flight demonstration: click here

Joby Completes Acquisition of Radar Developer Inras GmbH: click here

Toyota To Invest $500 Million in Joby Aviation: click here

Joby Aviation Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call Transcript: click here

Amping Airpower—Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing for the U.S. Air Force: click here

Joby demonstrates potential for emissions-free regional journeys with landmark 523-mile hydrogen-electric flight: click here

AFWERX Says Agility Prime eVTOLs Lack Range, Shifts To Hybrid: click here

AFWERX FY2024 Annual Report: click here

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