White House meets with FAA this week

FAA: Congress May Have To Wait Until 2013 For UAS Test-Site Solicitation

/ December 13, 2012 at 11:00 PM
A senior official for the Federal Aviation Administration is predicting that the agency will have to shelve its plan for establishing six test sites where unmanned aircraft would be introduced into the national airspace until after the holidays. Top FAA executives are meeting with White House officials this week in the hopes of obtaining approval to begin soliciting proposals for potential test-site locations, but it is looking increasingly like the agency will not be able to accomplish its congressionally mandated...

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