Vance-Granville Community College Selected for FAA Training Program

Vance-Granville Community College in Henderson, NC has announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected its Aviation program for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Initiative program, or the UAS-CTI. “I’m happy for VGCC to have been recognized by the FAA as UAS-CTI partner,” says James Brown Jr., Customized Training Director at Vance-Granville’s South Campus. […]

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Berry Aviation Names Vice President of Unmanned Aerial Systems Division

Berry Aviation, Inc. has announced the expansion of their executive leadership team by welcoming Tom Ballenger as Vice President of its Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) group. Ballenger is responsible for the oversight, management, and execution of Berry Aviation’s UAS contracts, delivering warfighter capability and customer support excellence. Additionally, he will spearhead capability development in UAS, […]

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FAA Grants Initial Approval Allowing BVLOS Drone Flights on North Dakota Drone System

Leveraging Vantis, the state’s first-of-its-kind UAS network, uAvionix, a drone company, received approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone flights in North Dakota. uAvionix demonstrated to the FAA that it established adequate risk mitigations to satisfy required safety standards for the specified BVLOS operation within the national airspace […]

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Drone Specialists Visit Cumbria Nuclear Team to Help Build Standards Across Range of UK Industries

Photo above – From left:  Amanda Smith, Sellafield’s UAV Equipment Program Lead; Reg Rudd, ECITB product development manager; Helen Craig, ECITB product development manager; Kevin Westwood, Managing Director of Kevin D Westwood Associates, and Sam Jay, UAV Pilot / Equipment Engineer at Sellafield Ltd pictured at Sellafield’s Engineering Centre of Excellence at Cleator Moor, Cumbria. […]

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Frontier Precision Unmanned Donates $50,000 in Drones to Support AeroX Workforce Programs

Photo above – Frontier Precision Unmanned’s Cole Martz (third from right) poses with AeroX President Basil Yap (far right), AeroX STEM partner Donald Sweeper (center) and Sweeper’s students after donating drones to AeroX. Measurement technology provider Frontier Precision Unmanned has donated two drones valued at $50,000 to AeroX to support its STEM and workforce development […]

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Iris Automation Granted Third BVLOS Waiver to Operate Without Visual Observers on Behalf of the City of Reno

Iris Automation has been granted its third waiver for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) autonomous operations on behalf of the City of Reno Fire Department, a participant in the FAA’s BEYOND program. In conjunction with previous waivers issued to Iris Automation, this offers a wider range of options for future UAS river rescue missions […]

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