AUVSI Partners With Lieutenant Governors Group to Promote Commercial Drone Use
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International is partnering with a group of state lieutenant governors who support aerospace initiatives to promote use of drones to grow the national economy. AUVSI CEO Brian Wynne said in a Thursday news release…
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that the Aerospace States Association (ASA) will help advance unmanned aviation at the state level. "Informing state elected officials about the benefits of unmanned systems and listening to their concerns and interest in this emerging technology are vital to enabling the infrastructure and public policy needed to grow our industry,” he said. The drone industry "is expected to grow our state economies, create over 100,000 high-paying jobs, and be a source of innovation and inspiration for our youth to enter the [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] workforce,” said Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey (R), who also chairs ASA. The release said Wynne will speak at ASA's annual meeting July 29 about Federal Aviation Administration recent rules for operation of small commercial drones (see 1606210025).