The UAS Flyer - March 12, 2015

Kansas Ag developer: UAS is critical For Billy Brown, Kansas Department of Agriculture agribusiness developer, Kansas offers several UAS-linked opportunities to manufacturers and operators. Embracing those opportunities is critical to the state, and the world, he said. READ MORE SHARE
Trimble updates precision ag GPS service Trimble Navigation Ltd. released a new version of its GPS satellite correction service, a product made for precision agriculture operations. Trimble's unmanned aircraft vehicles are equipped with the same systems. READ MORE SHARE
	Fixed-wing UAV maker partners with Iowa Ag firm Event 38, an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, announced an agreement with Cedar Valley Innovation LLC, an Iowa-based agriculture research organization, to bring a fixed-wing UAV to Iowa ag-fields. READ MORE SHARE
Federal agency accepting comments on UAS privacy policies The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is accepting comments on privacy, transparency and accountability issues related to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) until April 20. READ MORE SHARE
UAS start-up develops frameless platform UAS Directions, a start-up unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, has designed a 3D, multi-rotor uni-body platform that eliminates the need for exposed propellers. READ MORE SHARE
	Texas UAS Site tests sense-and-avoid technology On March 4 and 6, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's LSUASC conducted flight operations to test a ground-based sense-and-avoid radar system designed to help determine whether non-test aircraft had entered the UAS area of test operation. READ MORE SHARE