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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	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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Domestic Unpiloted Aircraft May Use 'Tunneling' to Fly in National Airspace The concept called "tunneling," requires the setting up of safe corridors through airways and the pre-placement of sensors at points along the way.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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.
National Defense October 2009 Grace Jean	Technologies to Help Aircraft Avoid Mid-Air Collisions Recent flight tests of newly developed technologies are proving that it is possible to fly manned and unmanned aircraft safely in the same airspace.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	High-Altitude Aircraft Could Spy for 5 Years Nonstop Scientists would like to create a drone with 1,000 times more durable than today's most persistent unmanned aircraft.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 February 2008 David A. Deptula	Unmanned Aircraft Not Just for Combat The speed with which unmanned aircraft capabilities have advanced in recent years has been astonishing.
National Defense July 2009 Grace V. Jean	Unmanned Systems Could Fly Majority of Air Force Missions Surveillance drones are becoming mainstream and the Air Force is even exploring a broader range of future missions for unmanned systems.
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?
Fast Company David Lumb	For One-Hour Delivery In NYC, Amazon Takes The Subway Amazon couriers do what most New Yorkers do to avoid surface traffic: jump on the subway.
National Defense April 2012	Readers Sound off on Recent Stories Letters to the Editor: "Safety Concerns Still Blocking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from National Airspace"... "It's a Hobson's Choice: Dollars for Defense or for Education"...
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 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 November 2012 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Become Lighter, Faster In the future, the military can expect to have unmanned aerial vehicles that are faster, stealthier and lighter, with longer endurance and can hold heavier payloads.
Fast Company David Lumb	Amazon Expands "Addictive" One-Hour Delivery to Baltimore and Miami Amazon will begin offering its one-hour delivery option in Baltimore, Maryland and Miami, Florida.
National Defense July 2010 Austin Wright	Army's Unmanned Aviation Fleet Faces Technology Challenges To boost the capabilities of unmanned aircraft, the Army identified three key areas where improved technology is needed: interoperability, sense-and-avoid devices and sensors that measure equipment deterioration.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Four-Star General in Charge of Homeland Defense Not Big On UAVs Unmanned aircraft may be proliferating in combat zones, but in U.S. homeland security missions, don't expect the same phenomenon.
National Defense August 2008 Sara Peck	Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates.
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 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.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Flying IEDs: Is the Threat Real? The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicle technology has brought up questions of how to best defend against them.
National Defense December 2013 Stew Magnuson	Micro-Aircraft Declared Safe to Fly in U.S. Skies One of the first hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicles fielded in Iraq is now being offered to local law enforcement and government agencies after it received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly in domestic airspace.
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.
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 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 2012 Dan Parsons	Companies Seek Profits In Fee-For-Service Surveillance Aircraft Airborne surveillance has become so popular that even countries that can't afford their own platforms are scrambling to acquire the capability.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	A New Report Shows How Amazon Is Different Around The World The e-commerce giant's customer service techniques have gained praise worldwide, but the Amazon shopping experience can vary wildly depending on the country you're in.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Drone Operators Ask Industry For 'Open' Systems The ground-based equipment that is used to fly unmanned combat aircraft is not adequate to handle the demanding missions of current conflicts, operators say.