{"id":14134,"date":"2019-11-04T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14134"},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:18:07","slug":"ups-announces-drone-package-delivery-at-university-of-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/utah\/ups-announces-drone-package-delivery-at-university-of-utah\/%20","title":{"rendered":"UPS Announces Drone Package Delivery at University of Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UPS has announced plans to deliver life-saving materials on\nthe University of Utah campus after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)\nawarded the company&#8217;s subsidiary, Flight Forward, a Part 135 Standard\ncertification. This was the first of its kind for a commercial provider and a\nwatershed moment for Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to its delivery service at North Carolina&#8217;s WakeMed\nhospital, \u201cFlight Forward will work with new customers in other industries to\ndesign additional solutions for a wide array of last-mile and urgent delivery\nchallenges,\u201d says UPS Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer Scott Price. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is anticipated that drone deliveries will significantly\nreduce crucial wait times for vital medical materials, reduce traffic\ncongestion, and improve air quality. &#8220;It\u2019s extremely exciting that we are\non track to launch Utah\u2019s first functioning drone delivery program,&#8221; said\nUniversity of Utah Hospital&#8217;s and Clinics CEO Gordon Crabtree. &#8220;Not only\nare we committed to providing innovative and quality care to our patients, but\nwe are committed to improving Utah\u2019s air quality by being on the forefront of\nthis new technological frontier.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS has announced plans to deliver life-saving materials on the University of Utah campus after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded the company&#8217;s subsidiary, Flight Forward, a Part 135 Standard certification. This was the first of its kind for a commercial provider and a watershed moment for Utah. Similar to its delivery service at North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems","category-utah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14135,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions\/14135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}