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
FAA‘s chief administrator Michael Huerta addressed the drone industry at the second annual UAS Symposium this week. The event was co-hosted by the FAA and industry advocacy group AUVS... Read more
DJI‘s VP of Policy and Legal Affairs Brendan Schulman testified at the Senate Subcommittee Hearing on drone integration this morning, in support of the industry’s technology solu... Read more
Prominent members of the drone industry will testify at a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation next week titled “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Innovatio... Read more
The Office of Science and Technology has published it’s Exit Memo, including drone integration as one of 20 personal, local, and national frontiers that Americans must focus on going f... Read more
DRONELIFE has already speculated on what a Trump presidency will mean for the drone industry. But in the last few months of Anthony Foxx’s tenure, the US Secretary of Transportation i... Read more