{"id":16228,"date":"2020-08-14T22:09:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16228"},"modified":"2020-08-14T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:09:47","slug":"virginia-ranked-1-in-unmanned-aerial-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/virginia\/virginia-ranked-1-in-unmanned-aerial-systems\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Ranked #1 in Unmanned Aerial Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virginia is two for two in being #1 for Unmanned Aerial\nSystems (UAS), according to Business Facilities magazine. The publication\u2019s\n16th annual survey was just published, and for the second straight year,\nVirginia was ranked #1 for UAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ranking comes just days after the public debut of the\nVirginia Flight Information Exchange pilot project, which is a platform for\nstate and local government agencies to publish and share advisory information\nwith each other, UAS Service Suppliers (USS), unmanned system operators, and\nthe public to promote transparency and public safety. The pilot program will\nevaluate the benefits of information sharing, inform thoughtful regulation, and\ndemonstrate a state-supported approach to UAS communications and coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magazine also ranked Virginia #1 in cybersecurity and\ndigital infrastructure. Virginia was ranked second for best business climate;\nthird for workforce development\/talent attraction and offshore wind power; and\nfifth for tech jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is two for two in being #1 for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), according to Business Facilities magazine. The publication\u2019s 16th annual survey was just published, and for the second straight year, Virginia was ranked #1 for UAS. The ranking comes just days after the public debut of the Virginia Flight Information Exchange pilot project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unmanned-systems","category-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone-Virginia-storyedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","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=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16230,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions\/16230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}