Operational and Technological Readiness
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The deployment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has been growing significantly over the last 10 years in the military sphere and we are now seeing an acceleration of pace in the civil market driven by small, cost effective and versatile systems with a wide variety of uses. The rate of increase of new market entrants for small systems is seen as a reflection of their accessibility and relative low cost. The real challenge is to further enable this early industrial base to a sustainable future where it may even be the first to be integrated into the current world of manned aviation.
This conference brings together leading experts from regulatory and industrial bases within Europe and beyond to focus on the Operational and Technology Readiness next step issues for civil market growth and the way it will develop.
The conference tackles this in four ways through:
• The Regulatory Framework Progress
• Key Infrastructure and safety requirements
• Operation and Application Developments
• Technology Maturity
The conference is intended for those individuals and companies that are either beginning to take part in this industry or who need to understand the more clearly the key expectation management criteria that will underpin any successful business plan through an understanding of enabling regulations, enabling infrastructure, operational and technology readiness.
The United Kingdom has made great progress in this area, both in its regulatory framework, in its innovative enabling organisations and in the growing base of UAS operators currently carrying out work on a day to day using aircraft mostly below 20Kg mass. So while many companies are waiting for tomorrows’ civil market to appear, others are already growing their market share and laying down the foundations for how this market will eventually develop.
The conference will debate how regulation enables operational acceptance of UAS operations, how the existing base of small UAS operations can be used to enable bigger steps towards UAS integration in the airspace and how governments can take early advantage of what is already happening by contributing to the acceleration of the industrial base required to deliver real benefits.
LOCATION
Event venue:
Royal Aeronautical Society HQ
Address:
No.4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ