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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.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Google's Project Wing Swoops Into Drone Air Traffic Control Conversation Dave Vos, who heads up the search giant's secretive version of a delivery drone -- talked about how the company wants to join with some of technology's biggest players in a broad air-traffic control system.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Amazon Imagines Exclusive Lane In Skies For Drones Amazon's plan to use drones for delivery is looking less like a publicity stunt and more like a sober business plan.
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 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.
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 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.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	Google Exec Says Drone Deliveries Could Begin Early Next Year Dave Vos's proclamation that drone deliveries could become a real thing in 2017 might seem like wishful thinking, but he says it's possible because the hurdles aren't technical, they're regulatory.
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 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.
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.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Rich Smith	Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope. It's Raytheon's newest, coolest drone.
National Defense October 2012 Stew Magnuson	FAA Misses First Unmanned Aviation Deadline Only five days after the acting administrator confidently affirmed that the Federal Aviation Administration would meet its goals for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into national airspace, the agency let a congressionally mandated deadline slip.
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 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 October 2013 Stew Magnuson	FAA Delays Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Test Site Selection to End of Year The Federal Aviation Administration is on track to select by the end of the year six sites where it can test unmanned aerial vehicles, said a representative of an industry trade group.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Verizon And NASA To Monitor U.S. Drone Traffic NASA and Verizon are collaborating on ways to monitor the U.S.'s commercial and civilian drones from cell-phone towers.
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.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	FAA Task Force Issues New Drone Guidelines Registering drone operators -- and not the aircraft they're flying -- will help the Transportation Department identify flyers who violate FAA regulations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes?
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.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge	Britain's Police Drone: Could It Stop Next Terror Plot? Authorities in the U.K. are testing a tiny helicopter with a camera. Is constant urban surveillance on the horizon? Or is Britain ready to foil the next threat even faster?
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	Air Force on Guard for Terrorist Plots Against Domestic Drone Bases Taliban and al-Qaida militants targeted by U.S. unmanned aircraft may attempt to retaliate against bases in Nevada and Arizona where the pilots remotely control the drones.
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 October 2011 Stew Magnuson	FAA Sets Date for Small Unmanned Planes in U.S. Airspace Mid-2013 is the latest estimate for when the Federal Aviation Administration will allow operators of small unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in national airspace without having to go through a lengthy bureaucratic certification process, according to an agency official.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller	Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy.
Popular Mechanics February 26, 2010 Rand Simberg	Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk? Ever since the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, almost a quarter of a century ago, the watchword above all others at NASA has been "safety." Unfortunately, watchwords don't necessarily create actual safety, as we learned a little over seven years ago, with the loss of her sister ship Columbia.
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams	Global Hawk Gaining Scientific Pedigree Two high flying Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles have been adapted for environmental science research missions thanks to a joint effort by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Northrop Grumman Corp.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Terrorists May Target U.S. Drone Bases, Says Air Force Official Taliban and al-Qaida militants targeted by U.S. unmanned aircraft may attempt to retaliate against U.S. bases in Nevada and Arizona where the pilots remotely control the drones.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale	Unmanned Systems Impact Battlefield and the Market Despite a lowing economy, the market for unmanned systems is expect grow significantly over the next five years with various market studies seeing a double-digit billion dollar market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.
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 February 2015 Valerie Insinna	General Atomics Tests Sense-and-Avoid System General Atomics and NASA in November began flight testing a proof-of-concept sense-and-avoid system integrated onto an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft.
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 May 2011 Grace V. Jean	Drones Becoming Special Operations Forces' Indispensible Tools of War Drones are rapidly evolving from airplane-like dimensions to supersized airships with wings the length of football fields and tiny robots that look and fly like birds and insects. Systems are gaining greater intelligence and autonomy.
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 May 2015 Allyson Versprille	Small Off-the-Shelf Drones Causing Alarm In Security Circles Small, readily available unmanned aerial systems pose an increased risk to national security as the technology grows more capable, a panel of experts testified before Congress.
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 November 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Expert Advice to Pentagon: Do Not Fear the Robots When it comes to robots, the Defense Department is letting timidity and misconceptions get in the way of technological progress, says a Pentagon advisory panel.
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
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	Unmanned Vehicles: A Tactical Advantage and a Rich Market The obvious advantage on the battlefield translates into greater demand for all types of unmanned vehicles creating an industry that some estimate will have a value of about $22 billion worldwide in 10 years-and that is just for UAVs, the most mature unmanned platform.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change.
National Defense December 2012 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Senate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Caucus to Tackle Privacy Issues While Washington lawmakers remain deeply divided down party lines, several senators have reached across the aisle to form a new unmanned aerial vehicle caucus.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	Fear of Crashes Keeping Drones out of U.S. Airspace The senior director of unmanned aircraft systems and control technologies at Rockwell Collins, Vos and other industry representatives are advocating a push for the development of automation technologies that will make it possible for piloted aircraft and drones to fly safely in the same airspace.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Publishes New Safety Guidelines For Unmanned Vehicles These comprehensive safety guidelines cover the design and operation of joint-service unmanned vehicles -- including unmanned aircraft and ground- and sea-based vehicles.
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.
National Defense March 2008 Breanne Wagner	Demand on the Rise for Small Hovering Drones The market for small, hovering drones will continue to grow, possibly at the expense of larger unmanned aircraft.
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.