2018 FAA UAS Symposium in Baltimore – March 6-8
Next week will be the 3rd Annual FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD….
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It’s back! The FAA and AUVSI 4th Annual UAS Symposium
It’s back! Phew! For a while, we weren’t quite sure if the FAA Symposium would be canceled altogether or not….
Amazon, Boeing, GE and Google to develop private Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system
During last week’s FAA Symposium in Baltimore, Amazon, Boeing, GE, and Google announced that they are ready to start working on the development of a private Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system for drones. Testing in conjunction with NASA is supposed to start in the next three months. The system will enable swarms of drones to fly a couple of hundred feet above the ground using cellular and web applications to avoid collisions and allow for remote tracking.
FAA Symposium – Drone identification and new powers to mitigate the clueless, the careless, and the criminals
According to a Federal Aviation Administration official, there are 10 times more drones registered in the US than manned aircraft. And, as we know, so many unmanned aerial vehicles in the hands of consumers has led to many drone incidents as well. Federal officials are urgently looking to mitigate the risk of drones in the hands of “the clueless, the careless, and the criminals” by introducing drone identification and new powers for the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to track, disrupt and bring down unmanned aerial vehicles that pose a threat to security.
Amazon’s Prime Air may begin delivering packages by drone sooner than you think
Amazon Prime Air and other companies may begin delivering packages by drone as soon as this summer, according to federal regulators and industry officials. Since late last year, the White House has started to put more pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with companies to make delivering packages by drone a reality. At the FAA UAS Symposium last week it became clear that drone deliveries may be here sooner than we think as federal officials promised drone proponents: “We’ll help you get there.”
FAA expands drone airspace authorization program to 500 airports
The FAA’s Acting Administrator, Dan Elwell, announced during the FAA Symposium last week that the tests of the automated Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) system will be expanded. This is an important step towards an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management System (UTM).
