Key stakeholders in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) community have banded together to develop standards for UAV systems―a step critical to maturation of the unmanned systems industry. Nearly 200 officials representing UAV manufacturers and other interested parties voted during a July 15 open organizational meeting at AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2003 symposium and exhibition in Baltimore, MD, to create the consensus standards and procedures leading to the UAV's routine access to the National Airspace System (NAS) for civil and commercial uses. The effort to develop, standards for non-military UAV systems, which will support the drafting of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations regarding UAV operations in the NAS, will be headed by ASTM International. Organized in 1898, ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems and services. Most of ASTM's income is derived from the sale of publications.
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