MEMPHIS AIRPORT AUTHORITY LOOKS TO SHOW HOW UAS CAN BENEFIT AIRPORTS, MANNED AIRCRAFT

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The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA) will spend the next three years conducting a variety of UAS operations across Memphis under the UAS Integration Pilot Program. The only lead applicant selected for the program that is an airport, MSCAA is especially interested in the benefits that drones can offer airports, and ironically enough, manned aircraft. Airports are increasingly looking to integrate UAS into their operations, which is something that MSCAA's President and CEO, Scott Brockman, is also looking to do. Having previously served as chair of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), Brockman says one of his goals during his tenure was to raise the awareness of airports' needs to prepare themselves and develop a pathway to embrace technology as it evolves. "In my mind it's [technology] coming, and there's no avoiding it," Brockman tells Unmanned Systems.