Sentences with phrase «unmanned air systems»
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The system is part of the agency's UAS Data Exchange umbrella, which aims to facilitate drone registration and help speed integration of the unmanned aircraft into the airspace used by traditional commercial and private manned aircraft.Last November, the FAA began testing the system at eight air route control centers, with the goal of ultimately covering 300 air traffic control facilities nationwide that monitor approximately 500 airports.
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Increasing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Once regulatory hurdles for the use of autonomous air vehicles are cleared, UAS developments could give logistics companies the opportunity to move freight away from central hubs to dispersed regional airfields and change how we transport goods by air.
The consortium of DARPA, Boeing Integrated Defence Systems, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, and NASA has been working for more than a decade on developing and testing the X-51, an unmanned scramjet aircraft designed to meet the requirements of the U.S. Air Force.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned aerial systems, or drones, across the nation.
If the region receives $ 500 million over five years under the initiative, $ 250 million, or half the state aid, would be invested to develop, among other things, an air traffic management system for unmanned aerial vehicles so they can be safely integrated into the nation's commercial airspace, members of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council said.
NASA has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned aerial systems, or drones, across the nation.
NASA's approach relies on drone operators sending flight information to a centralized system — like an automated air - traffic control — that tracks the location of autonomous aircraft, says Parimal Kopardekar, principal investigator for NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management project.
authorizes a robust program including efforts to integrate unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace, development of NextGen technology for air traffic management and research on aviation safety
This notice sets forth the procedure to seek an air taxi operator exemption to hold economic authority from the Department of Transportation for companies proposing to engage in certain air transportation operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
NGAS develops advanced platforms across three broad groups: Autonomous Systems, like the Global Hawk UAV and X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System; Manned Aircraft Systems, like the B - 2 and B - 21 long range bombers; and Space Systems, like the James Webb Space Telescope.
Such system will be useful when there will be a significantly high amount of unmanned aerial vehicles for air traffic control systems to handle.
Military necessity during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, prompted the secretary of defense, Robert Gates, to authorize the deployment of new drone systems — unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs, with very little autonomy — before they were fully tested.
Responsible for managing and supporting operations and maintenance of flight hardware to facilitate launch and recovery of unmanned lighter - than - air systems.
The programs include: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), US Army Ground - based Midcourse Defense (GMD), US Army Future Combat System, US Air Force (USAF) unmanned vehicles, US Army Brilliant Anti-tank weapons, USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter (FY - 23), US Army S...
WASHINGTON (June 21, 2016)-- Commercial drone use in the real estate business got a boost today with the release of the Federal Aviation Administration's final rule governing small unmanned aerial systems, or UASs, in the national air space.
The Congressionally - mandated deadline for the FAA to complete integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the national air space came and went.