UAS in the National Airspace System: A Chat with the FAA

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Editor's Note: Unmanned Systems sat down in March with Richard J. Prosek, the new manager of the Federal Aviation Administration's Unmanned Aircraft Program Office, AFS-407, within the Flight Standards Service, and Leslie H. Smith, the division manager of the Flight Technologies and Procedures Division. This will be one of a regular series of Q&As with the FAA, for which AUVSI will solicit input from its members. To pose questions you'd like to see answered, please go to www. auvsi.org and visit the "Community" section of the Web site. You will need to be logged in to view and comment on the blog posting "Q&A with the FAA."rnQ The Department of Defense has been flying unmanned aircraft day in, day out for years now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can you describe how data about those flights get to you and what you are doing with them?rnA (Prosek): We have a memorandum of agreement with the DOD to share safety data - and this is separate and apart from what's in the COA [Certificate of Authorization] process - and we've been working fairly diligently with them.