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National Defense May 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry Rallies Behind Push To Promote Drone Safety When a DJI Phantom drone crashed into the lawn of the White House in February, it highlighted what some fear may be a trend of unmanned aerial vehicle-related accidents.
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Defense Industry Developing Systems to Defeat Enemy Drones Experts and company executives envision a future where new technology employed by the military or government agencies could spot rogue or hostile drones, identify them and even commandeer or stop them mid-air.
National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson	Regulatory, Technological Hurdles Stand In Way of Domestic Drone Mandate If Congress gets its way, by Sept. 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles will be seamlessly flying in national airspace alongside passenger jets, military aircraft and single-prop general aviation Pipers.
National Defense February 2014 Dan Parsons	Drones Over U.S. Soil Still Years Away, Despite Congressional Mandate The Federal Aviation Administration has less than a year left to meet its congressionally mandated 2015 deadline for clearing drones to fly over U.S. soil.
National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Collision Avoidance Technology for Unmanned Aircraft Years Away Sense-and-avoid technology is a conundrum for unmanned aerial vehicle engineers and researchers.
National Defense October 2007 Breanne Wagner	Civilian Market for Unmanned Aircraft Struggles to Take Flight As the demand for unmanned aerial vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to increase, government agencies and contractors are clamoring to use aerial drones for domestic missions in U.S. national airspace.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Military, Industry Racing to Create Sense-and-Avoid Systems Congress has set a 2015 deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration to phase drones into civil airspace, but one of the technologies needed to safely operate unmanned aircraft won't be ready until at least a year later.
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner	Worries About Mid-Air Collisions Keep Civilian Drones Grounded The agency that controls the domestic airspace, the Federal Aviation Administration, said unmanned aircraft are not yet ready to conduct realistic missions.
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Safety Concerns Still Blocking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles From National Airspace The Pentagon, along with the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, has been negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration for years to allow unmanned aerial vehicles to gain regular access to the national airspace.
National Defense February 2015 Sarah Sicard	UAS Degree Programs Growing with Market By 2025, there could be more than 100,000 jobs in the unmanned aerial systems industry, according to a 2013 economic impact report performed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Amazon To Congress: Drone Delivery Aircraft Ready Within A Year Senior officials from Amazon and the Federal Aviation Administration testified before Congress yesterday on the feasibility of using drones for commercial purposes.
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel	Efforts Under Way to Harden Unpiloted Aircraft for Contested Airspace Military leaders are beginning to wonder how Predators, Reapers, Hunters, Shadows and the rest will perform in unfriendly skies.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Expansion of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. Skies Prompts DHS to Set Up New Program The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is setting up a new small unmanned aerial vehicle program ahead of the technology's expected integration into U.S. national airspace.
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel	Uncertainty, Challenges Mark Future For Military's Unpiloted Aircraft The use of unmanned aerial systems in Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that they are invaluable in uncontested airspace. But questions remain about how the current generation of U.S. drones would fair in unfriendly skies.
National Defense September 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Inside Black Dart: How the Military Prepares for a Future Drone War The two-week long exercise, known as "Black Dart," drew about 700 military personnel and members of industry to test new anti-unmanned aerial vehicle technology.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	FAA Still Working on Rules for Domestic Pilotless Aircraft Use The Federal Aviation Administration fears that a drones will collide with commercial aircraft.
National Defense May 2015 Valerie Insinna	Drone Makers Hope to Corner Burgeoning Global Market Experts predict manufacturers will encounter an increasingly crowded playing field over the next decade, as more companies begin producing ever more advanced systems.
National Defense October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Approach Needed for Recreational Drone Rules A lack of concrete rules to regulate recreational unmanned aerial vehicles across the United States is leading to chaos and many dangerous close-call collisions, said one drone expert.
National Defense June 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry, Entrepreneurs Await FAA Small Drone Ruling Rules and guidance from the FAA are required before commercial companies can fly unmanned aircraft legally. The agency is scheduled to announce a notice of proposed rulemaking for small unmanned aerial systems later this year.
National Defense September 2014 Stew Magnuson	Navy Program at Center of Drone Survivability Debate The Navy's unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft, still in the early stages of development, also has long-term requirements to carry out missions deep in an adversary's territory.
National Defense November 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Small Spy Drones to Expand Troops' Eyes And Ears on Battlefield Despite sliding defense budgets, the collection of this critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data will continue to be a priority for the armed services, experts told National Defense.
Fast Company David Lumb	NASA Wants Your Ideas For Managing Skies Filled With Drones NASA and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International are hosting a conference at the end of July in Moffett Field, California to bring government authorities, industry professionals, and amateur enthusiasts together to chat about drones.
National Defense May 2013 Dan Parsons	Booming Unmanned Aircraft Industry Straining to Break Free of Regulations The advent of unmanned aerial vehicles taking flight within U.S. national airspace could mean an enormous economic windfall for aviation entrepreneurs and the nation's economy.
National Defense August 2015 Allyson Versprille	Marine Corps Developing Low Cost Robot Swarms to Counter Enemy Drones As the technology for unmanned systems proliferates, one of the biggest challenges facing the military today is countering small, inexpensive drones used by the enemy in unexpected ways, said a Marine Corps official.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Controversies Do Little to Temper U.S. Employment of Armed Aerial Drones With the war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the fight against terrorists will become more decentralized, leaving experts to ponder where the United States will next employ its armed drones.
National Defense August 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	More Sophisticated, Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft on the Horizon In the future, unmanned aerial systems will hold even more utility as they become faster, stealthier and more autonomous, experts said. At the same time, they will become more accessible to foreign countries and terrorist groups around the world.
National Defense July 2013 Dan Parsons	Remotely Piloted Aircraft Strikes Score Victories But Could Backfire in the Long Run There are widening policy concerns about the legality of drone strikes and that U.S. action is setting a dangerous precedent for when and how technologically superior nations can and should wage war.
National Defense February 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Pilots: Flying Drones Tougher Than It Looks Unmanned aircraft operations can be dangerous, aviators contend. Bad weather, makeshift runways and close calls with friendly aircraft are among the hazards that put missions at risk.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries.
National Defense March 2015 Stew Magnuson	DHS Budget Request Has Little for Maligned Border Drone Program A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report slammed Customs and Border Protection's use of its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, saying it was underused, very costly and that there was little evidence to support its effectiveness.
National Defense August 2006 Grace Jean	Unmanned Surveillance Balloon To Hit the Skies Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. has developed an unmanned surveillance aircraft that looks like a balloon but flies like a kite.
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons	Debate Continues Over Role of Simulators in UAS Pilot Training There still is no agreed upon method of training new UAS pilots -- and keeping seasoned operators proficient -- for future conflicts where U.S. drones will be flying in contested airspace.
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean	Army Receives FAA Approval to Fly Unmanned Aircraft in National Airspace The Federal Aviation Administration has granted the Army permission to fly unmanned aircraft in national airspace at night using ground-based radar and GPS systems to avoid civilian and commercial traffic.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	First Legal Drone Delivery Takes Flight, Beats Out Amazon Last Friday marked the first successful drone delivery carried out legally in the U.S., with a drone cleared for liftoff by the Federal Aviation Authority.
National Defense January 2016 Allyson Versprille	Affordable Surveillance a Priority for Special Operations U.S. Special Operations Command is looking to add more affordable surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance systems to its inventory, the head of acquisition and procurement said.
National Defense February 2015 Stew Magnuson	Marine Corps Set to Deploy Next-Generation Unmanned Aircraft The Marine Corps and Navy will launch their newest unmanned aerial system, the RQ-21A Blackjack, from a ship this spring for the first time, and are looking into developing pocket-sized reconnaissance drones.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	AIG Launches Drone Insurance Policies AIG, one of the world's largest insurers, is rolling out a new set of policies aimed at the growing drone industry.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	FAA Gives Amazon Green Light To Test Delivery Drones In effect, it's a green light by the FAA for Jeff Bezos and company to start legally mucking around with delivery via tiny, unmanned aircraft.
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel	U-2, Global Hawk Advocates Square Off in Budget Battle Today, more airmen train to fly drones than bombers and fighter jets. But at least one part of that transition from manned to unmanned aviation is on hold.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Own A Drone? You Have Until February To Register With The FAA The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday that anyone who owns a consumer drone weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must register it within the next two months.
National Defense June 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Shine Starting to Wear Off Unmanned Aircraft Unmanned aviation has enjoyed a decade-long honeymoon, during which the military poured billions of dollars into new drone fleets and the media ballyhooed their deadly precision in combat.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Confusion Surrounds Navy's Carrier-Based Drone The Navy in 2010 first released a request for information for the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, or UCLASS, but officials took years debating whether it wanted a revolutionary technology or something less risky.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons	Air Force F-35s, Drones May Square Off in Budget Battle Unmanned aerial vehicles have become a potent portion of the U.S. Air Force inventory and an indispensable weapon in the global war on terror.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground.
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons	More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts.
Popular Mechanics November 28, 2007 Erik Sofge	Houston Cops' Test Drone Now in Iraq, Operator Says The FAA-approved test involved a single fixed-wing drone that's currently used by both the Marines and the Navy in Iraq.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Drones Could Mitigate Terrorist Attacks Had a drone been employed to watch over the Boston Marathon in 2013, it is possible the attack could have been prevented
National Defense July 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Unmanned Aircraft Proponents See Future Beyond Battlefields "The ability for us to utilize this technology is unbelievable," said Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. "It's almost like the Industrial Revolution."
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons	Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.