NASA researchers are developing an air traffic management system that will work to monitor drones that fly up to 500 feet above the ground, the New York Times reported Monday. Conor Dougherty
MoreEngineers from NASA and Rockwell Collins tested communications between unmanned aerial systems and control tower personnel during a trial held at the Eastern Iowa Airport last week. Rockwell Collins and NASA are
MoreThe Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration have moved to limit usage of military airspace for testing unmanned aerial vehicles, Inside GNSS reported Monday. Dee Ann Divis writes the decision comes
MoreNASA will award up to $1.5 million for a robotics competition aimed at demonstrating how unmanned aerial vehicles could fly in the same airspace used by manned aircraft, UAS Vision reported Monday.
MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration plans to choose six test sites by the end of 2013 for evaluating how to integrate drones into the national airspace, The Sun Journal reported Thursday. Sue Book
MoreThe Defense and Homeland Security departments have partnered with the private sector to develop open source software unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense News reported Dec. 23. Michael Peck writes that the facility for the Open
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The Russian military and a United Arab Emirates-based company have signed a preliminary agreement for the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense News reported Monday citing the Russian State News Agency RIA Novosti
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Federal Aviation Administration head Michael Huerta is confident that the agency will meet a congressionally-mandated September 2015 deadline to fully integrate drones into U.S. civilian airspace despite some technical challenges, USA Today
MoreThe Justice Department‘s inspector general has released a report which says the department spent nearly $5 million on unmanned aircraft from 2004 to 2013. The FBI has spent more than $3 million
MoreThe White House is transferring control over some drone operations for overseas anti-terrorism missions from the CIA to the Defense Department, Reuters reported Monday. Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball write President Barack
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