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- - One year in, the drone park creates new opportunities on campus
    The tallest drone park in the country has been used by aspiring pilots, experienced aviators, and innovative researchers, and hosted everyone from a Daisy Scout troop to a nationally ranked drone racing team.
- - Remote sensing with ArcGIS Pro workshops offered in Blacksburg and Williamsburg
    This comprehensive workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Mapping With Drones workshops offered across Virginia
    This introductory-level workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Drone delivery in the U.S. clears a major hurdle
    After several years of research and testing with the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, drone-delivery company Wing has become the first to receive federal authorization for commercial deliveries.
- - Selection for drone traffic-management program reflects Virginia’s leadership in UAS integration
    After years of increasingly sophisticated research on systems to handle an anticipated influx of drone traffic, the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership will get the chance to help shepherd the technology toward implementation.
- - Drone integration moves forward, one industry standard at a time
    An international committee charged with developing consensus standards for unmanned aircraft met at Virginia Tech for the second year in a row.
- - With the right resources at the right time, research institute accelerates discovery
    The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science provides pivotal support that propels early-stage collaborations forward.
- - Conference explores what’s next for unmanned vehicles
    The Ridge and Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International met to reflect on a banner year for unmanned systems in Virginia.
- - Mapping With Drones workshops offered in Blacksburg and Richmond
    This introductory-level workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Town hall meeting is an opportunity to discuss university policy on drone use
    The Sept. 5 meeting provides a forum for Virginia Tech's thriving community of drone users to learn more about the policy, which balances the technology's incredible potential for research and education with the unique considerations of operating in a campus environment.
- - The future of delivery
    A popsicle arrived in a Blacksburg backyard as part of the most advanced drone-delivery testing ever performed in the United States, conducted by Wing and the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
- - Virginia Tech drone users: Be familiar with the university drone policy
    Anyone flying an unmanned aircraft on or with Virginia Tech property is required to abide by the university's drone policy, which enables flights on campus when certain conditions are met.
- - 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.
- - 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.

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