Senate authorizers want the defense secretary to provide annual reports on the Pentagon's progress on research and development to integrate unmanned drones into the national airspace and related funding needs. The Senate Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill, which was filed this week, calls for the Defense Department to work with the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA on solutions to the challenges of integrating unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. "DOD's leadership belatedly realized how important...
