May 29, 2024
BY Office of Senator John Hoeven
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The North Dakota Unmanned Autonomous Systems (NDUAS) Council announced that Frontier Precision, a leading provider of geospatial and drone technology solutions, has joined its prestigious membership.
In partnership with Northrop Grumman, Scaled Composites announced the first flight of their most recent vehicle, the Model 437 Vanguard. The Model 437 Vanguard is a crewed variant of the original concept powered by a single Pratt & Whitney 535 engine with approximately 3,400 pounds of thrust.
Gotonomi, a leading provider of UAV satellite connectivity solutions, has announced the completion of further successful flight trials and the opening of orders for production units of all variants of its UAV satcom terminals at Commercial UAV Expo 2024 in Las Vegas.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules to enable initial drone operations in the 5 GHz spectrum band for wireless communications necessary to safely control the flights of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).
On Sept. 17-18, 2024, the Vertical Flight Society will host its 8th Workshop on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Infrastructure at the US Navy Memorial Visitor Center in downtown Washington, DC. The workshop is focused on understanding and developing infrastructure to support electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and is being held in support of the efforts by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and industry to develop eVTOL vertiports.