Date: May 30th, 2013 Proposed Agenda (subject to change) 7:30 – 8:30: Registration 8:30 – 8:45: Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:30: Keynote Speaker 9:30 – 10:30: Break/Expo 10:30 – 11:15: Presentation 11:15 – 12:00p: Presentation 12:00 – 1:30: Lunch/Expo 1:30 – 5:00 Presentation 5:00 – 7:00: Networking/Expo Where: Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum 7711 East Academy Boulevard Denver, CO...
May 9th 2013 marked the one-year anniversary of the sUAS News Podcast Series. We celebrated the occasion (and 200,000+ downloads) by airing a special “Really Big Show”, or episode #48 recapping the highlights and ground covered from the past year’s 47 information packed episodes. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/suasnews/2013/05/08/the-really-big-show The entire sUAS News team takes pride in the popularity of the show and...
Fresh back from the hallowed halls of the North Berkeley Senior Center Chad Partridge and I have come away with an invaluable learning experience. No inference or innuendo was spared that could have been mistaken for anything short of drones being responsible for many of the world’s ills save polio, and possibly the stock market crash of 1929. Not...
Once again our friend in Iran Ali Parvazi fills Patrick in on their student competiton. Hard to believe that contest and symposium season is upon us already. So this year see’s another robust competition come out of the Iranian Republic. Encouraging to see, so many of the Universities and students to compete. Hopefully this annual contest will lead to more...
Today the programme of the RPAS 2013 Conference & Regulatory Forum was published on www.rpas-2013.org The 15th edition of this annual international event will take place at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium on 24-27 June 2013 (the week following the Paris Air Show). This event, which stands firmly in the light of the upcoming European RPAS Roadmap, features 43 speakers...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has bumped back its timeline for a much-anticipated rule on integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the U.S. national airspace system according to HAI. A proposed rule should go to the Office of Management and Budget — one of the final steps in the rulemaking process — by July 1, according to a new...
SF Drones Startup Meetup Patrick Egan from www.suasnews.com will be speaking on the intricacies of the legalization of commercial drones, both domestically here in the US as well as abroad. Paypal will be sponsoring Food and Drink since Bruce Jones stepped up to the plate without hesitation yesterday. Location is TBD, so if you have a spot that can...
The 2013 International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) will focus on strategies for managing the risks and reaping the rewards of the rapidly evolving commercial space industry, officials announced today. Keynote speakers and panelists at the ninth annual symposium will explore best practices that increase yield and decrease costs with attention to the present and future applications...
We made our way to U.C. Berkley Law Schools Boalt Hall for a lunchtime talk about Drones. (Announcement below) The usual cast of folks one would envision from Berkley representing all walks of life and the spectrum of age groups. I kept thinking they were going to cue up the Darth Vader music for my introduction, but that did...
sUAS News Group and the Silicon Valley Chapter of AUVSI, et al are putting on the first of its kind International Small Unmanned System Business Exposition in San Francisco on July 25-26, 2013. What this represents is a leap forward for the rest of the unmanned systems community. Attendees will not see any of the trade show customary fare....
