Our collegues at UAV Coach have let us know of a new 2018 UAS/RPAS/Drone Survey being conducted by SkyLogic and targeted to look at the state of the industry this year in time for InterDrone. While US based, they are collecting data from a number of countries and so it might be possible to provide […]
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The Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE) is an event partner of USC. They publish a comprehensive list of Automated Vehicle conferences, webinars and industry events in their free newsletter, AV Update. Watch for USC’s Event List! To suggest or cross-promote events, email us: [email protected] CAVCOE’s June 2018 AV News included this list of upcoming AV-related Events: […]
Kate Kienapple from Costal Drone Co., one of our regular contributed, pulled together a summary of the May 23rd TC Stakeholder Engagement session on CG1 and the proposed UAV/RPAS Rules. Our thanks to Kate for her reporting on this important session. Summary from TC’s Stakeholder Engagement Session On Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, Transport Canada (TC) […]
Unmanned Systems Canada Chairman of the Board Mark Aruja announced that effective January 1st, 2018, Ms. Glenn Martin (B.Comm., CAE) will be the new Executive Director for USC, the national association representing Canada’s rapidly growing aerial, land and marine unmanned vehicle industry. Glenn brings USC a long history of industry association leadership with 8 years as CEO […]
Unmanned Systems Canada in partnership with LOOKNorth (LN) organized a BVLOS workshop which was held at the Transport Canada facilities in Montreal on 15 February. Over 80 participants in person and via teleconference. The key objectives were to introduce potential funding available from LN/USC for USC corporate members to support BVLOS trials and the implementation […]
Student Unmanned Aircraft Systems Competition- Students Summoned by Police It is not unusual for students to have a run-in with the law, but these students are taking their best technology to be on side with the police. This year 14 university teams from across Canada have been summoned by the Manitoba RCMP to provide UAS […]
Matternet, a drone-delivery company based in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park California, has recently joined forces with Daimler, as well as the government of Switzerland, to bring rolling distribution hubs for aerial package delivery. While the initial focus of the initiative was on the speedy delivery of time-sensitive lifesaving medical supplies, a shift to testing the […]
Unmanned Systems Canada Chairman Update for Christmas 2017 This year has been another busy and productive year, with several notable milestones achieved. Here’s some highlights: Unmanned Canada 2017 Conference News USC held our 15th Annual National “Unmanned Canada Conference and Trade Show” in Toronto, ON this November – it was a resounding success! For three […]
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