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
Canada is working towards the safe management of drones at emergency and disaster sites. Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based developer of geospatial software technology, announced today t... Read more
As one of the leading providers of commercial drone solutions in the industry – and, founded in 2011, one of the earliest drone companies – Airware has had a front row seat as dr... Read more
Military and commercial drone company Insitu announced that their platforms have flown 1,000,000 hours last week – a major milestone for the 23-year-old company. “…I believ... Read more
In an address to participants at AirVenture, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta emphasized the need for partnership to drive the aviation industry forward. Saying that his last trip to AirVent... Read more
ICAO is asking countries to cooperate on international standards for unmanned air traffic management (UTM.) At the opening of the ICAO Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Symposium in Abuja ye... Read more
The FAA has announced that the first meeting of the UAS Identification and Tracking Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) “advanced key policies of concern to the FAA, industry and law... Read more
Leading airspace intelligence platform AirMap says that “instantaneous authorization” for drone operation in controlled airspace is coming soon. AirMap has partnered with the FAA... Read more
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, announced a Request for Information (RFI) on UTM: traffic management systems for unmanned ai... Read more
A recent article published on Recode.net speculated that the privatization of air traffic control, as announced by President Donald Trump earlier this week, could actually speed up drone int... Read more
Notes from the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting held Wednesday have been released, indicating that the DAC task groups have made progress on their assigned goals. Following a tour on T... Read more
The FAA will host the third meeting of the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) today, where working groups will present their progress. The group, announced last May, is designed as a collaborat... Read more
The FAA has followed through on its promise to ease the commercial drone authorization process, publishing more than 200 facility maps this week. “This marks a key first step as the FA... Read more
The FAA is taking steps to improve the processing of airspace authorization requests, by releasing the first set of UAS facility maps at the end of the month. “The maps will depict ar... Read more