By Cameron Shonnard As the war on terror has grown larger, new means of warfare have continued to be developed by the United States military and the government agencies it works with (predominately the CIA) in order to best protect the development of democracy in foreign nations. Through their actions of attacking and fighting to […]
UAVs are currently on the edge of dramatic innovation that will allow them to incorporate several new operating systems, sensors, navigation devices, and other advancements onto a single unit. New uses for these versatile systems will naturally follow, often in the initial form of military drones. This technology inevitably trickles down into civilian accessible supplies and resources, […]
In the past few years, many states have proposed or passed laws regulating the usage of drones. These laws generally fall into two distinct categories: those that regulate the government’s use of drones and those that regulate civilian uses for drones. A majority of states, such as Florida, passed laws that prohibited state law enforcement […]
On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide, including within the United States, of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents […]
A small little drone is not very intimidating if you just look at the craft itself. For five hundred dollars you can get a drone that can be carried around in a case smaller than a seven inch tablet and still carry a GoPro. While terrorist usage of drones is a concern, most people are […]
Drones have been waiting in the batter’s circle of economics to step up to bat and take a swing at commercial integration. Amazon announced their new drone delivering system and sent the general public into a buzz. Some got excited at the novel idea, others remained skeptical, but either way it was a very popular […]
The purpose of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to protect the American people, and this is what the agency sought to do when banning all commercial use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), or drones, in 2007. Unfortunately, this errant act of policy-making has not insured the safety of Americans, but rather hindered innovation and […]
With the advancement and rise of the drone in recent years, concerns of the ethics and privacies of the miniature fliers are coming to the forefront of the public mind. The government is using drones to observe and gather intelligence on terrorists in the Middle East. What is to say that the government can’t and […]
In the wake of several high-profile uses of domestic drones as a means of product delivery, unmanned aerial systems have capture the collective conscious of the collective public. There are some that argue that drones may never see widespread commercial utilization because of their impracticality or that they will be regulated into insignificance by the […]
Surveillance Drones on the Homefront The somber warning of Orwell’s dystopian 1984 may have seemed to pass with the fall of the Soviet Union, but many Americans have begun to fear that their free, democratic country isn’t as free and safe as it used to be. The birthplace of the unmanned aerial vehicle, or more […]