* AUVSI's The Economic Impact
of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States report shows the economic benefit of UAS integration.
The second task order requires the Griffiss Test Site to implement hardware and software solutions to collect data required
for unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) research.
Dedicated Defense Company to Deliver the Next - Generation of
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to the United States Department of Defense and Other Federal Agencies.
«This is important because it represents one of the first chase plane flights using a fixed -
wing unmanned aircraft system for infrastructure inspections,» said Rose Mooney, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, headquartered at Virginia Tech's Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Science.
Founded in 2014, ParaZero specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing safety solutions for
commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operators to overcome their main barrier - safety.
The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 tasked the agency to «develop a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil
unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.»
Northrop Grumman, NASA Dryden and a team of international science organizations successfully flew a Global
Hawk unmanned aircraft system as part of a mission to collect environmental data in the Canadian Arctic.
The Rome site is one of six designated across the U.S. by the Federal Aviation Administration to
test unmanned aircraft systems, and it is at the heart of a plan to use drones to jump - start the upstate region's lagging economy.
They've scooped up 80 percent of the first 500 exemptions the FAA
granted unmanned aircraft system — i.e. drone — operators since it began offering exemptions last year, according to a report by the non-profit Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
Lisa Ellman, a public policy lawyer at the D.C. offices of Hogan Lovells and co-chair of the practice's
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group, says the registry is largely aimed at fostering accountability among and between drone operators.
Rockwell Collins enables airspace management during test flights for NASA's UAS Traffic Management program - Apr 30, 2018 - Rockwell Collins recently participated in two weeks of critical testing for the
NASA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) program.
Gibson will oversee NUAIR's efforts to safely
integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace and help make Central New York and the Mohawk Valley a magnet for the booming drone industry.
CReSIS also designs and
manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, enabling aerial platforms to image the ice - bedrock interface and collect fine - resolution data over fast - flowing glaciers.
And on 9 February, the European Commission's
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Panel will meet in Brussels, Belgium, to agree on the key flight rules and technologies essential for commercial UAVs to operate safely in civilian airspace.
In fact, the capture net was created as a result of landing difficulties experienced during the Arctic missions, says Todd Jacobs, NOAA's
unmanned aircraft systems project officer onboard the Polar Star.
American Aerospace Technologies Inc., a Pennsylvania - based company that
creates Unmanned Aircraft Systems for industry use, provided and piloted the test aircraft — an RS - 16 UAS, which can be equipped with a special sensor package to identify threats to pipeline integrity.
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).
Though he did introduce the Higher
Education Unmanned Aircraft Systems Modernization Act in 2016, but this does not necessarily apply to all of the 40 million student loan borrowers today.
Commercial Limitations «Current FAA rules allow hobbyists and manufacturers of model aircraft wide latitude in flying their sUAS [small
unmanned aircraft systems] outdoors,» Mary Osako, a spokesperson for Amazon, told the E-Commerce Times.
In addition to state and local privacy laws, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration («NTIA») published a set of voluntary best practices for
unmanned aircraft systems privacy, transparency and Accountability.
The House Committee on Transportation's Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing this week on «
U.S. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Integration, Oversight and Competitiveness.»
National Association of Realtors ® President Chris Polychron issued a statement about new proposed rules for
unmanned aircraft systems issued today by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA's 26 - page response to Trudeau's petition stated, «The proposed exemption would allow Trudeau to operate the PHANTOM 2 Vision + quad -
copter unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to conduct aerial videography and cinematography to enhance academic community awareness for those individuals and companies unfamiliar with the geographical layout of the metro Tucson area and augment real estate listing videos.»
«I am writing to express my complete disappointment that the proposal from New York State, Oneida County, Amazon and other partners for the U.S. Department of Transportation's
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program was denied,» Picente wrote in his letter to Chao.
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules (PDF) for routine commercial use of
small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or «drones»), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation's airspace.
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.
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.
«ATTREX will perform a series of campaigns using NASA's long - range Global
Hawk unmanned aircraft system to study cloud formations in the tropical tropopause.
On Wednesday, January 21, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing to discuss innovations
in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, or «drones»), the need for FAA rules on their commercial use, and the roadblocks to getting those rules promulgated.
«We've got work upcoming that's probably going to involve Conoco and a new aircraft system called Silent Falcon,» said Ro Bailey, director of the Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range Complex and deputy director of UAF's Alaska Center
for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration.