{"id":25242,"date":"2018-05-10T03:33:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=315483"},"modified":"2018-05-12T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:53:01","slug":"faa-to-team-with-local-state-and-tribal-governments-and-companies-to-develop-safe-drone-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2018\/05\/10\/faa-to-team-with-local-state-and-tribal-governments-and-companies-to-develop-safe-drone-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA to team with local, state, and tribal governments and companies to develop safe drone operations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Future drone war as portrayed in \u201cCall of Duty Black Ops 2\u201d (credit: Activision Publishing)<\/p><\/div>\n

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today<\/a> (May 9, 2018) that 10 state, local, and tribal governments have been selected* as participants in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The goal of the program: set up partnerships between the FAA and local, state and tribal governments. These will then partner with private sector participants to safely explore the further integration of drone operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cData gathered from these pilot projects will form the basis of a new regulatory framework to safely integrate drones into our national airspace,\u201d said Chao. Over the next two and a half years, the team will collect drone data involving night operations, flights over people and beyond the pilot\u2019s line of sight, package delivery, detect-and-avoid technologies and the reliability and security of data links between pilot and aircraft.<\/p>\n