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Back in March, automotive producer Ford introduced that its drone division had put ahead a suggestion to the FAA’s distant monitoring & ID aviation rulemaking committee. Our first impression was ‘Hold up, Ford has a drone division?’ After that, we had a have a look at the specifics of the …

Workhorse Group just lately introduced that they’re performing drone supply in Ohio, with cooperation of the FAA.  It’s not a challenge listed as a part of the UAS Integration Pilot Program, designed to accommodate functions not allowed below present laws.  But residents of Loveland, OH can now decide to have …

Virginia’s Governor Ralph Shearer Northam signed legislative invoice HB638 final week.  The invoice is a main win for Virginia’s drone {industry}, making a transfer to stop localities from enacting their very own laws and creating the problematic “patchwork quilt” of drone guidelines inside the state. The regulation, which can go …

The Consumer Technology Association is bullish on the FAA’s current announcement regarding the UAS Integration Pilot Program partnerships. According to the FAA: “The results from the Program will help to inform the development of future enabling regulations that will expand safe UAS operations and help to transition many of the new …

News and Commentary.  The U.S. House of Representatives introduced on the finish of final month that they’d handed the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act by an overwhelming majority: 393 to 13.  This is important information for all stakeholders within the aviation business – many earlier tries to achieve consensus over a …

Emerald Expositions, producers of one of many largest drone conferences on the planet, have introduced that Daniel Ok. Elwell, performing administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, will give the Grand Opening Keynote handle at InterDrone, September 5 at 10:00 am. InterDrone is being held September 5-7 on the Rio Hotel …

Tomorrow, May 5 is International Drone Day, and together with that occasion main AI-enabled airspace consciousness and intelligence agency Fortem Technologies launched its client survey findings, revealing public opinion of a future with drone know-how. Public opinion is a vital subject for the business.  Here within the U.S., dialogue over …

Enterprise drone operations software program specialist Kittyhawk has introduced a collaboration with Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary. The pair will start working in the direction of providing digital airspace authorization immediately from the FAA by way of the Kittyhawk platform. Kittyhawk and Jeppesen are aiming for approval from the FAA to …

The US House of Representatives has launched one other attempt at a long run FAA Reauthorization Act.  With the clock now ticking till the present extension of an extension of an extension runs out at the tip of September, the drone business is ready to see what Congress can agree …

The industrial drone business desires safer skies for unmanned aerial automobiles and so they’re taking their case to Capitol Hill. The Commercial Drone Alliance, an unbiased 501c6 non-profit led by key figures of the industrial drone business, known as on Congress in a latest assertion to repeal Section 336 of …