UAS Market Potential in the US

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A new potential for Israeli makers on small unmanned air systems (UAS) ?

According to WIRED magazine The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds research and development for surveillance robots. It provides grant money by the hundreds of thousands to police agencies to buy their own. And sometimes it’s bought and deployed robots — for their skies, the ground and the waters — of its own, usually concentrated along the border. It’s not clear how many of those robots police operate, and law enforcement isn’t by any means the only domestic market for the ‘bots. But the trend lines point toward more robotic spy tools for law enforcement in more places – with more DHS cash.

But it’s not going to be simple. The Federal Aviation Administration is cautious about opening the skies to unmanned vehicles — so much so that Congress and the Obama administration ordered it to ease up on restrictions by 2015. But not all spy robots fly. DHS is also developing robots that resemble fish, and deploys tunnel-bots deep into drug-smuggling tunnels along the border.

Some Israeli companies have developed very advanced Micro and Mini UAS and the law enforcement market looks very promising . It will probably involve cooperation with u.s companies.