AUVSI President and CEO Michael Toscano addressed the Aero Club of Washington, D.C., on Friday, saying unmanned systems represent still-untapped potential that will be unleashed once regulations allow. The economic impact will be huge. According to AUVSI's economic forecast for aerial integration, released last year, within the first decade of commercial flight there will be 100,000 new jobs cre- ated and more than $82 billion of economic activity. However, before that can happen, several things need to be addressed. For UAS, Toscano said five things need to be done: operators must be properly trained; vehicles must be airworthy; the flight environment should be assessed for safe operation; there should be accountability for misuse, including some type of system to identify the owner of a given UAS; and data must be handled properly.
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