Civilian UAV Use is Slowing Down

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Privacy concerns and a lack of Federal Aviation Administration resources have slowed the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) into the national aerospace system, industry experts say.

According to sUAS those experts, who gathered at California Western School of Law last week for the inaugural Air & Space Law Symposium, said without the commercial use of unmanned aircraft in the United States, it will hurt the country’s economy.

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“The use of UAS in the wars has shaped the perception of what the use would be here,” said Steve Morrow, CEO of Insitu Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing. “And I can tell you from a capability standpoint, if you have used a cellphone or if you have surfed the Internet, you are orders of magnitude closer to relinquishing your privacy than through a UAV.”