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- - Behind the scenes of drone integration: Managing traffic in the sky
    As drone flights from the entertaining to the lifesaving, and all the more quotidian ones in between, become more common, the systems coordinating those missions behind the scenes will become increasingly critical.
- - Community college faculty get training in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to bring back to the classroom
    Attendees in the GeoTEd-UAS Faculty Institute May 20 through 25 will gain hands-on experience in flying and operating small UAS to conduct a variety of missions.
- - Virginia wins bid to participate in national drone program
    The winning teams will have the opportunity to conduct some of the most complex flight testing of unmanned aircraft ever undertaken in U.S. skies. The day-to-day operations of the program in Virginia will be managed by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
- - At 85 feet, the net's the limit: Virginia Tech Drone Park officially open
    Once Virginia Tech President Tim Sands cut the ceremonial ribbon held aloft by a drone, the Virginia Tech Drone Park was officially open for business.
- - Research groups field-test the future of transportation, on the ground and in the air
    The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership and Virginia Tech Transportation Institute teamed up for NASA research exploring how drones could detect each other and avoid each other in the sky.
- - State investment in radar technology pays dividends for drone research
    A high-tech radar purchased with a grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia became a key piece of a successful proposal for NASA funding and enhances the state's status as a hub of activity in the growing unmanned-systems industry.
- - Project Wing’s James Ryan Burgess to keynote autonomy conference
    Burgess co-leads the group whose drones delivered burritos on campus last fall. His keynote speech will explore how autonomous systems can earn the public's trust.
- - 360 Video: Construction continues on Virginia Tech drone park
- - Landmark study suggests risks vary widely in drone-human impacts
    Virginia Tech’s world-renowned injury biomechanics group and its FAA-approved UAS test site have just released the first peer-reviewed academic study to offer quantitative data on injury risk associated with potential drone-human collisions.
- - Virginia Tech, Project Wing, and partners team up with NASA on unmanned traffic management
    Tests coordinated by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership help lay the groundwork for a future when large numbers of unmanned aircraft share airspace safely and efficiently.
- - Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, corporate partners test unmanned aircraft beyond line of sight
    The team tested a satellite communications system that allowed the pilot to maintain control of the unmanned aircraft during long-range flights along a power line.
- - Assessing injury risk from unmanned aircraft will pave the way for new applications
    Virginia Tech researchers are studying the injury risk from small unmanned aircraft, which will help guide new regulations and ultimately make aircraft safer.
- - Geospatial education project works to bring drone technology to Virginia’s community colleges
    The partners have developed a curriculum chart that will help community colleges establish courses to provide students with a range of options, from individual courses to various levels of certificate programs.
- - Unmanned-aircraft training program raises the bar for safety in aerial journalism
    The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership is training journalists from the country's largest news organizations to use unmanned aircraft safely and effectively.
- - Funding for research to coordinate aerial and aquatic robots could improve emergency response
    With the right algorithms, teams of aerial and aquatic robots could autonomously assess an oil spill or other emergency and provide critical information to first responders.
- - Project Wing partners with Virginia Tech to test delivery by unmanned aircraft
    The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership and Project Wing are researching the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver food.
- - Research flights lay the groundwork for teaching unmanned aircraft to detect and avoid obstacles
    In efforts to safely introduce more unmanned aircraft into the nation’s skies, Virginia Tech researchers and scientists from Brigham Young University have equipped an unmanned aircraft with a newly designed radar system and optical video cameras.
- - Virginia Tech unmanned aircraft expert speaks at White House panel on the future of aviation
    The first event of its kind hosted by the White House, the workshop brings together experts and stakeholders from industry, academia, and government.
- - Leadership transition for the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership
    Mark Blanks succeeds Rose Mooney, who has served as the executive director since April 2014. Mooney will remain with the organization as a senior advisor.
- - Virginia Tech enables unmanned aircraft testing to survey energy corridors, study long-distance flights
    Newly authorized airspace, funding for instrumentation, and an energy industry consortium will advance unmanned systems research.

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