Michael Huerta, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been appointed to the advisory board of counter-drone technology maker D-Fend Solutions. He holds almost 30 years of experience in the industrial areas of security and aviation safety, and will contribute to D-Fend's pursuit of technologies that counter unmanned aircraft systems, D-Fend Solutions said Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration has teamed up with PrecisionHawk, BNSF Railway and CNN to expand the use of unmanned aircraft systems for operations in populated, rural and remote areas. The FAA will work with CNN to test if drones can be used in newsgathering activities in urban areas, the agency announced Wednesday at the Unmanned Systems […] More