FAA Announces Drone Registration Task Force Members, Including Amazon, Best Buy, CEA
Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta unveiled the list of groups invited to participate in the Transportation Department and FAA’s recently announced Unmanned Aircraft Systems Registration Task Force Thursday. In a news release, the FAA said the “Task Force membership represents…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
a range of stakeholder viewpoints, interests and knowledge of the objectives and scope.” Members include representatives from: Amazon Prime Air; Amazon Retail; Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International; Best Buy; CEA; GoogleX; GoPro; PrecisionHawk; Small UAV Coalition; departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Interior and State; the Office of Management and Budget; and NASA. “The group will meet formally from Nov. 3-5 before developing recommendations on a streamlined registration process and minimum requirement on which unmanned aircraft should be registered,” the FAA said. Absent from the task force are privacy and civil liberties groups. “Interested parties who are not members of the Task Force may submit comments to the public docket,” FAA said. CEA Vice President-Technology Policy Doug Johnson said in a news release Thursday that CEA is honored to join the task force, saying a 63 percent increase in drone sales is expected this year alone. “UAS technology -- if allowed by government to thrive -- will be key to U.S. global technology leadership,” he said.