On Saturday, March 26, 2022 the FAA named Asociate Administrator for Aviation Safety Billy Nolen Acting FAA Administrator. Nolen will step into the role when Trump-appointed Administrator S... Read more
Note: We invite drone advocacy groups and drone companies to share your response to the confirmation of DOT Sec. Pete Buttigieg. The U.S. Senate today confirmed the Biden Administration’s no... Read more
U.S. Transportation Secretary and drone advocate Elaine Chao has resigned her post in the wake of Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. Chao, who has hailed the “safe int... Read more
Government use of drones is on the rise. But integrating public safety efforts with research, innovation and environmental agencies is a complicated business. DJI has put together a guide fo... Read more
With the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) well underway and reporting successful tests of a wide variety of beneficial drone applications, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Ch... Read more
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2019 Transportation-HUD spending bill by a unanimous vote: but criticized the Department of Transportation for diverting Department fu... Read more
The Drone Integration Pilot Program (IPP) announced by the Trump administration last year has generated tremendous interest in the U.S. Both state and local governments and drone industry p... Read more
Among the big speeches at last week’s CES 2018 was the address by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Chao announced that drone registration in the United States has topped 1,000,00... 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
President Trump signed a directive today to launch the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) says in a statement that the pr... Read more
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General has issued a damning report on the FAA’s oversight of commercial drones, saying that the agency has “limited knowled... Read more
As the FAA continues its never-ending struggle to publish a final rule for regulating drone flights in the U.S., states’ Departments of Transportation are finding value in drones at ev... Read more
As time runs out on the current FAA authorization – set to expire March 31 – Congress debates the contents of the next FAA Reauthorization bill, and the FAA is under fire. A rec... Read more
The US Department of Transportation released their official statement today about a drone registration system. Citing recent reports of drones creating safety hazards as their reason for th... Read more