Save the Date! The 2022 Education and Training Symposium is scheduled for August 30th through September 2nd and will be an in-person event in Prescott.
Check the AGIC website, AGIC Listserv, or follow-us on social media to get symposium updates, including when registration is open.
Until then, be sure to visit the new AGIC YouTube channel to view recordings of the 2021 Symposium.
The Federal Aviation Administration is planning to have remote ID service for drones – a foundational component of integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace – up and running by sometime next year. Drone operators will be required to transmit their drone’s location, velocity, and identifying data to a centralized system, which a variety of remote ID UAS service suppliers (USS) share and retrieve information from in near-real-time.
How will the FAA access remote ID information? Currently, the focus is on using a Discovery and Synchronization Service (DSS) defined in the remote ID standard published by ASTM International. Rather than a nationwide unmanned traffic management system, it appears the FAA, along with other qualified agencies and public-facing apps, would query flight information through the DSS from participating USSs based on a grid system.