FAA told to integrate UAVs into airspace by 2015

By Frank Tobe | March 12, 2012

President Obama signed into law a bill which gives the FAA three years to integrate UAVs into the national air space.

The DoD has hundreds of camera-carrying drones from Iraq and Afghanistan that need recycling for training, natural disaster response and homeland security missions.

And local police and firefighters want their own drones for their own crime-fighting and first-responder purposes.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.