The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International is urging drone enthusiasts, companies and groups to come to Washington D.C. next month for AUVSI Hill Day (Capitol Hill, that is).... Read more
Two House Republicans have a real problem with the Department of Homeland Security’s plans for drone mitigation. This past week. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rep. Mark Rogers (R-Ala.) sent a... Read more
If there was ever a time to participate in discussions of drone policy, that time is now. AUVSI issued an announcement this week about their annual “Hill Day.” If you’ve... Read more
News and Commentary. In an editorial published in the Washington Post, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen painted a bleak picture of drone technology... Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives Aviation Subcomittee held a hearing focusing on drones. The “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Emerging Uses in a Changing National Airspace” hearing... Read more
Current FAA projects could halt and employees face furloughs if Congress fails to pass an extension to the FAA Reauthorization package by Saturday. While an attempt by the House to pass a bi... Read more
Small business owners and representatives of the drone industry testified before a Congressional subcommittee about the FAA’s efforts to move commercial drone regulation forward. Speak... Read more
(Source: Forbes) Two U.S. Senators are ready to introduce a bill before Congress that will look to establish temporary rules to regulate and manage the nascent commercial drone industry, a... Read more
(Source: blogs.rollcall.com) House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith tried hard at a hearing Wednesday to get the Federal Aviation Administration to say when it... Read more
(Source: motherboard.vice.com) A high-level federal government official admitted today what business owners and hobbyists have realized for a while: There’s no good way for the Feder... Read more
(Source: Washington Post) Federal lawmakers on Wednesday questioned whether the Federal Aviation Administration is able to cope with an influx of small, cheap drones that are endangering a... Read more
(Source: itk.thehill.com) House Republicans are zeroing in on Obama administration policies restricting the use of unmanned commercial aircraft. Top officials from the Federal Aviation Adm... Read more
“The FAA is where innovation goes to die.” These were the words of Forbes contributor Greg McNeal at November’s UAS Commercialization Conference in Washington D.C. He was r... Read more
Although the FAA plans to set guidelines for commercial and governmental drone use by 2015, some states – like California – say that’s too late and are deploying their own regulations. Last... Read more