Intel Drone Boss Anil Nanduri Joins NASA Advisory Council Ae…

Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Drone Group, Anil Nanduri, has been appointed to the NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee.

Nanduri has beforehand labored with the FAA on the UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee in an effort to develop rules to securely combine drones into the nationwide airspace. His new function at NASA can be as a part of a bunch that meets repeatedly and presents recommendation to the NASA Administrator.

Congratulations to Anil Nanduri, VP and GM of the @Intel #Drone Group, for being appointed to the @NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee: https://t.co/PR3lNKnHMI pic.twitter.com/LY0PGs6PMd

— Intel News (@intelnews) July 10, 2018

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The NASA Advisory Council offers experience and perception to the Administrator concerning the company’s “strategic plans, programs, policies and other matters pertinent to the Agency’s responsibilities for aeronautics research and development.”

NASA says the Advisory Council’s recommendation “spans basic research and technology applicable to all areas of aviation that are under the purview of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. These areas include but are not limited to commercial air transportation, advanced air vehicles, aviation safety, and air transportation system technology research, development, and demonstration.”

Read extra: Intel CEO Demos the Volocopter: a Drone for Passenger Transport

The Committee’s members, which apart from Nanduri embrace Boeing CTO Dr. Greg Hyslop and Dr. Eric Allison, Head of Aviation Programs at Uber, are appointed by the NASA Administrator with the purpose of representing business, academia, {and professional} organizations. Committee members are appointed for 2 years.

Who is Anil Nanduri?

If you haven’t heard of him already, Anil Nanduri is VP & GM of the Drone Group at Intel. He may simply have the best job within the business. He has led the Intel drone group since its inception in 2015, and his function has been to ascertain Intel’s drone technique, discover rising applied sciences within the subject and supply options for industrial functions.

These vary from Intel’s Insight platform to the corporate’s drone mild exhibits, collision avoidance know-how and software program for the transport drone Volocopter.

If you wish to be taught extra about Nanduri and the drone-related work he’s overseeing at Intel, we advocate listening to an interview he did with Commercial Drones FM final yr…