Officials welcome unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) stakeholders to the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Convention on July 28, 2015. This week NASA is hosting the three-day UTM Convention to bring together a broad domestic and international audience of government and civilian representatives, industry and academia, aviation, agriculture, film and other industries, to understand and define the UAS impact and challenges ahead.
The morning started with a welcome from Thomas Edwards, deputy director of the hosting location, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and opening remarks from John Cavolowsky, NASA Airspace Operations and Safety Program director at the agency’s headquarters as well as Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the co-hosting organization, the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
Opening keynote speakers followed, including Jaiwon Shin, NASA Associate Administrator, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate; Edward L. Bolton, Jr., Federal Aviation Administration Assistant Administrator for NextGen; and Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Safe Autonomous System Operations Project Manager and UTM Principal Investigator at Ames.
Shown from left to right are Edwards (at podium), Cavolowsky, Wynne, Shin, Bolton, Kopardekar and event emcee Timothy Steiger.
Follow the conversation online with #UTM2015.
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