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Aviation's next great frontier: Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) will increasingly save and improve the lives of Americans. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta 鈥 at an event sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association in Washington 鈥 outlined a just-released  for integrating UAS into America鈥檚 skies.

America鈥檚 airspace is on the verge of being expanded in ways that realize the enormous positive potential of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). In coming years, UAS will increasingly save and improve the lives of Americans by helping to fight forest fires, perform search-and-rescue operations, enable precision farming, survey vast lands for wildlife conservation, and more.

In fact, because of significant steps forward by government regulators, UAS will begin to be integrated into US airspace by 2015. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta 鈥 at an event sponsored by the in Washington 鈥 outlined a just-released聽聽for integrating UAS into America鈥檚 skies, as well as a聽.

With UAS expansion, privacy is a significant but聽聽concern. To address the issue, Administrator Huerta unveiled聽聽for the six domestic UAS test sites that will be announced by the end of the year.

Huerta said the trio of documents provides a pathway to 鈥渢ransforming our airspace.鈥 And AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey touted the 鈥渆normity of the benefits of unmanned aircraft鈥 including their聽.

See the videos for excerpts from the AIA event.

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