Federal agencies plan to continue incorporating drone technology into their business operations, with government pilots currently focusing on threading the needle between automation and safety, with the surveillance aircraft.
One agency looking to capitalize on improved drone technology is the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been employing drones to capture footage from accidents among maritime, aircraft and auto transportation systems since 2016.
“We're looking to expand to have more pilots in the agency and more drones, so that we can respond to more of our accident scenes,” Catherine Gagne, an unmanned aircraft system operator within the National Transportation Safety Board’s Office of Aviation Safety said Tuesday.
Speaking during a panel discussion via the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, Gagne discussed the agency’s core mission of investigating transit accidents and how drones have been part of site documentation for the last six years.
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One agency looking to capitalize on improved drone technology is the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been employing drones to capture footage from accidents among maritime, aircraft and auto transportation systems since 2016.
“We're looking to expand to have more pilots in the agency and more drones, so that we can respond to more of our accident scenes,” Catherine Gagne, an unmanned aircraft system operator within the National Transportation Safety Board’s Office of Aviation Safety said Tuesday.
Speaking during a panel discussion via the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, Gagne discussed the agency’s core mission of investigating transit accidents and how drones have been part of site documentation for the last six years.
Continue reading: https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2022/04/national-transportation-safety-board-wants-expand-drone-operations/366126/
