HOT NEWS! Trump tells FAA to move faster on drone traffic control

The Trump administration is taking new steps to speed the integration of unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace.

An Oct. 23 memo from the president calls for an UAS Integration Pilot Program to be stood up within the next 90 days. Under the program, the Federal Aviation Administration will work with state, local and tribal governments to establish UAS testing zones and build a regulatory framework for unmanned systems operation.
Specifically, the memo calls for the FAA to:

• Accelerate testing of currently restricted UAS operations, such as beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights and flights over people.
• Open the skies for the delivery of medicines and commercial packages, inspections of critical infrastructure, emergency management operations and crop surveys for precision agriculture applications.
• Test new UAS traffic management systems and detection and tracking capabilities. <---- **HOT NEWS** This is what Department 13 is all about!
• Increase the number and complexity of UAS operations across the nation.

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