Many have experience in aerospace working on jets, rockets, missiles, satellites and unmanned aircraft.
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Second, even in the absence of enemy air defenses, unmanned aircraft are relatively fragile.
First of all, unmanned aircraft typically lack defensive weapons with which to protect themselves.
By 2018, the nation's unmanned aircraft could number more than 15, 500, according to industry projections.
We will respect the concerns of the public as they relate to unmanned aircraft operations.
The cost factor was underscored this week, after one of the Navy's unmanned aircraft crashed in Maryland.
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The Air Force this year canceled plans to replace the U-2 with an unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk.
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Meantime, Oregon State and other universities are putting unmanned aircraft to the test.
Other types of unmanned aircraft systems need FAA approval, according to the agency.
Some observers think that unmanned aircraft amount to a revolution in modern warfare.
An industry representative said the federal government already is regulating unmanned aircraft systems, the name industry uses for the aircraft.
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Mr Searle added that the biggest hurdle to the use of any unmanned aircraft is the public perception of them.
The price-tag looks even heftier when the limited versatility and survivability of unmanned aircraft are factored into the life-cycle cost equation.
Air Force leaders are saying the military may already have enough unmanned aircraft systems to wage the wars of the future.
America's Federal Aviation Administration is currently exploring how commercial drones, or unmanned aircraft systems, can be safely introduced into US airspace.
Fourth, there is little likelihood that emerging technologies will enable unmanned aircraft to become autonomously capable and survivable in the near future.
Fortunately, sophisticated adversaries are not what we face today, and so the current operational environment affords maximum latitude for employing unmanned aircraft.
To be sure, unmanned aircraft are coming soon to airspace near you.
Thursday's incident marked the second time an unmanned aircraft had been intercepted in Israeli airspace within the past seven months, the IDF said.
Last year, the FCC proposed that the industry explore wireless networks that can be operated from blimps and unmanned aircraft in a disaster.
We also on occasion do use our unmanned aircraft for purposes, again, because we have a unique capability to assist in this mission.
Iran claims to have its own fleet of unarmed drones, but U.S. officials question Tehran's ability to conduct even short-range reconnaissance with unmanned aircraft.
In 2012 the FAA established the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office to figure out how to certify and regulate drone traffic in U.S. airspace.
The third step was to use cash generated by mature military lines to buy into growth markets such as unmanned aircraft and cyber security.
"The FBI is asking anyone with information about the unmanned aircraft or the operator to contact us, " said Special Agent in Charge John Giacalone.
It joins the US Marines famed V-22 Osprey as the second such aircraft on earth and is the first unmanned aircraft packing the technology.
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AeroVironment also established world altitude records with its solar-electric, unmanned aircraft systems at the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on Kauai.
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Since current unmanned aircraft lack the agility and situational awareness of manned aircraft, their performance is relatively clumsy even if their endurance is considerably greater.
AeroVironment (AVAV), a maker of unmanned aircraft, announced that fiscal third quarter profit increased by 32 percent, due to stronger sales and increased gross margin.
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to begin flight testing and writing rules aimed at integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system as soon as 2015.
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