The National Science Foundation award will help UAS operations technicians in the fields of geospatial data acquisition, analysis and exploration, according to Sens. Warner and Kaine.
The National Science Foundation award will help UAS operations technicians in the fields of geospatial data acquisition, analysis and exploration, according to Sens. Warner and Kaine.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., has announced $950,000 in funding dedicated to equipment for a new 5,000-square-mile unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test range recently approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Virginia. The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership – which [Read More]
Regarding the potential damage drones can bring to passenger aircraft, Virginia Tech researchers are urging changes in how commercial aircraft engines are designed. According to Virginia Tech, certain drones that are sucked into a plane’s turbofan engines – be it [Read More]
Virginia’s Germanna Community College (GCC) says it will begin using drones to help a local company monitor progress at Mitchells Quarry in Culpeper County and will soon begin more extensive drone training for students. According to Ben Sherman, a Germanna [Read More]
At the inaugural meeting of public- and private-sector stakeholders, including Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Mark Warner stressed the importance of “pushing” the Federal Aviation Administration forward.
Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (DAC) is collaborating with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) at Virginia Tech to research, test and advance the commercialization of the company’s tethered unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The organizations have begun flight testing in Jacksonville, Fla., [Read More]
Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., has announced a number of appointments to the Virginia Unmanned Systems Commission, charged with bringing public- and private-sector experts together to make recommendations on how to make Virginia a national leader in unmanned systems. In June, [Read More]
Rice Associates Inc., a geospatial services firm headquartered in Manassas, Va., has formed a partnership with Navigator CS LLC, a Leesburg, Va.-based provider of engineering and management consulting services, for the use of drones. Navigator CS LLC, a disabled veteran-owned [Read More]
Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., has signed Executive Order 43, which establishes the Virginia Unmanned Systems Commission, charged with bringing public- and private-sector experts together to make recommendations on how to make Virginia the national leader in unmanned systems. According to [Read More]
The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) at Virginia Tech has completed a test flight of a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to inspect an energy pipeline route. The flight, lasting about 90 minutes, covered around 11 miles over a Colonial Pipeline Co. right [Read More]
Ten news media companies are partnering with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to test small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) at the Virginia UAS test site. The partnership between the news media coalition and Virginia Tech is designed to conduct [Read More]
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has given his stance on the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by law enforcement for search warrants in the state. The verdict? It's a no-go. In an Oct. 9 letter to Ronald K. [Read More]
Woolpert – a geospatial, infrastructure management and design firm based in Dayton, Ohio – says it has been awarded a one-year contract with the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, to provide on-call aerial photography and mapping services [Read More]
Rose Mooney, vice president of engineering consulting company Archangel Aero LLC, has been chosen to lead the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test site operated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected Virginia [Read More]
Glen Allen, Va.-based RTS Labs has developed a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that would act as a lifeguard for swimmers. The UAV, called Pars, ‘would be able to drop off life vests in the water and use a heat [Read More]
The selection of six unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may have an impact on NASA aeronautics research, especially at two NASA Virginia facilities. NASA says its Langley Research Center in Hampton and Wallops [Read More]
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