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Ten public-private partnerships from across the nation have been chosen to test the use of unmanned aerial vehicles—commonly known as drones—in potentially useful ways that are currently illegal under federal law without a waiver.
Last year, President Trump ordered Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials to accelerate the use of drones nationwide while ensuring safety and security. The department started the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program in an effort to help state, local and tribal governments connect with private drone operators as they find innovative ways to use the technology. The program encouraged applicants to submit proposals for test cases that would obtain data that could be applied to broader use cases, with the understanding that Transportation and FAA would waive certain restrictions to make these programs viable.
Almost 150 applications from local governments were submitted by January. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the 10 public-private partnerships during a live event Wednesday that included presentations from each of the chosen participants, with local leaders and legislators, their federal counterparts and private-sector innovators thanking the administration and touting their programs as part of the larger development of a drone ecosystem.
The pilot programs “will test the safe operation of drones in a variety of conditions currently forbidden. These include operations over the heads of people, beyond the line of sight and at night,” Chao said. “Instead of a dictate from Washington, this program takes another approach. It allows interested communities to test drones in ways that they’re comfortable with.”
Chao also noted the program aligns with the department’s top three priorities: safety, addressing and repairing infrastructure, and preparing for the future. The secretary said the last goal will be achieved by “engaging with new technologies to ensure safety without hampering innovation.”
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Everyone agrees that the sniper attack in Ukraine which started the regime change was a false flag attack.
Eric Zuesse claims false flags are continuing to this day in Ukraine:
Writing at professorsblog.com, this great historian, Dr. de Noli, noticed that whereas in “Berlin 27 Feb 1933, Nazis set fire the Reichstag, and Adolf Hitler blames ‘pro-Russian gangsters’,” a chief instigator of the 22 February 2014 Ukrainian coup was a leading Swedish nazi, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, and that a remarkably similar tactic was used by Bildt and the Obama Administration to start the Ukrainian civil war. De Noli notes that this war was sparked and made inevitable when in “Odessa 2 May 2014, nazis set fire [to the Trade] Union building and Carl Bildt blames ‘pro-Russian gangsters’.” In both of the two instances (first, with Hitler, and then with Obama), a “false-flag operation” was employed in order to confuse onlookers regarding which side the perpetrators of these fires and explosions actually were on. For example, in the Odessa event, the thugs wore armbands with anti-nazi insignia but were actually from the two Ukrainian nazi parties, Svoboda and Pravy Sektor. They used those armbands in order to confuse onlookers to think that the people who were setting fire to the anti-nazis were themselves anti-nazis. This was a very carefully planned operation, and you can see here and here, video documentation of the thugs who did it and who are still doing violent false-flag operations inside Ukraine: these people are Ukrainian nazis, not German ones, but they model themselves upon the German original, as you can see from their own insignia, which are shown in those videos, and which insignia vary little from the swastika and the SS symbol. Ukraine’s nazis are rather bold about modeling themselves upon Hitler’s Nazis — the original nazis.
False flag attacks have been carried out by countries all over the world … including Russia.
Was the murder of 300 innocent passengers when their plane was shot down today a false flag? If so, who did it?
CBS reports in an article entitled “‘Big Question’ Is Why Plane Was Flying Over War Zone”:
During a phone interview with CBS News Thursday morning, Captain Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was questioned why Malaysia Airlines flight 17 would be flying over Ukraine’s border with Russia despite ongoing political unrest in the area.
Sullenberger, the veteran of the 2009 Miracle on the Hudson landing, is an aviation expert for CBS News….
“That is one of the big questions right now,” said Sully. “The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has barred U.S. Airlines from flying over this area for some time.”
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The Danville resident said that, if air traffic control personnel were using both primary and secondary radar, it’s possible that an image of a missile could have been captured on screen, if in fact that is what took down the plane.
The Atlantic -in a report titled, “The FAA’s Notice Prohibiting Airline Flights Over Ukraine” – notes:
Did aviation authorities know that this was a dangerous area?
Yes, they most certainly did. Nearly three months ago, on the “Special Rules” section of its site, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration put out an order prohibiting American pilots, airlines, charter carriers, and everyone else over whom the FAA has direct jurisdiction, from flying over parts of Ukraine.
Zero Hedge asks:
Who benefits?
Tony Cartalucci argues:
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US authorities have presented a plan for the mass use of
drones in American airspace. Though there have been few objections to
the move so far, a global government surveillance drone program is
likely to raise privacy concerns later on.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has presented a detailed plan for drones to roam across American skies within the next two years.
The plan sets September 2015 as a deadline for integrating UAVs into
US airspace, and six possible drone test sites will be selected out of
26 proposed ones by the end of 2013.
The move has been continuously lobbied by the trade group Aerospace
Industries Association, which expects great demand for civilian-use
drones, including for agriculture, firefighting, weather forecast and
tracking wildlife.
Within the next five years, after appropriate regulations are
introduced, whole 7,500 small UAVs will be operating in US airspace, FAA
Administrator Michael Huerta said at an aerospace news conference in
Washington on Thursday.
Huerta outlined the ultimate goal of the American drone industry:
global leadership that could enable the US to set standards for the
industry worldwide.
"We recognize that the expanding use of unmanned aircraft
presents great opportunities, but it's also true that integrating these
aircraft presents significant challenges," Reuters quoted Huerta as
saying. He added that US aviation regulations and safety rules would
remain a “gold standard” for the rest of the world “to maintain our position of global leadership.”
“We have operational goals and safety issues we need to consider as we expand the use of unmanned aircraft,” Huerta said.
At the same news conference, AIA President Marion Blakey promised that UAVs would bring an “enormity of benefits” to American society and that unmanned aircraft represent “America's next great aviation frontier.”
According to industry forecaster Teal Group, the estimated $6.6
billion spent worldwide on drone research and development in 2013 will
grow to $11.4 billion in 2022, AP reported.
True beneficiaries of drones used in America
The move to use drones widely inside the US had been long expected after drones were introduced into the US Army.
Drones have some clear advantages over fixed surveillance cameras on
lampposts and at other locations, as they require the video streams from
CCTVs to be processed. For instance, drones can always be focused on
the desired objects at the operators’ will at any given time, and drones
are cost-effective mobile tools in America’s vast low-rise suburbia.
The FAA previously claimed it has no interest in letting weaponized UAVs, like the missile-equipped Predator, into US airspace anytime soon.
So far nobody is talking about armed UAVs prowling US city skylines,
but officials’ ideas about drone data retention has alarmed privacy
advocates in the country.
Huerta shared some interesting statistics on who is using drones in
the US the most. He mentioned that apart from synoptics, environmental
specialists and educational institutions, there are about 80 law
enforcement agencies that operate small size surveillance drones, with
the FAA granting each of them public use waivers on a case-by-case
basis.
“If we’re going to take full advantage of the benefits that we’re
talking about from these technologies, we need to be responsive to
public concerns about privacy,” Huerta said.
Reportedly, not only the FAA, but also Pentagon, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of justice are taking part in
a multi-agency group that has also released a comprehensive plan
accelerating integration of UAVs into US national airspace. All data
gathered by the six test sites will go straight to that interagency
group, Huerta said.
The test drone sites will have to comply with federal and state
privacy laws, account for collected data and present annual reviews on
privacy practices, Huerta said.
“It's crucial that as we move forward with drone use, those
procedural protections are followed by concrete restrictions on how data
from drones can be used and how long it can be stored,” said Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
