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SHOUTING AT STORMS: NOAA EVALUATES GLOBAL HAWK’S STORM-WATCHING CAPABILITY

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A high-flying, long-endurance drone that once spied for the U.S. Air Force is in the final phases of a tryout for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a storm chaser. So far, the judges are impressed. The aircraft – the Global Hawk, and one of the first ones built – has successfully flown observational patterns directly above five Atlantic hurricanes over the past two years, dropping data-gathering canisters called sondes and taking atmospheric readings […]

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NOAA UAS Program participated in the UAS TAAC (Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Analysis and Applications Center) Conference

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Conference was 12-15 December, Santa Fe, New Mexico The NOAA UAS Program participated in the UAS TAAC (Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technical Analysis and Applications Center) conference to discuss critical issues regarding UAS in a productive, value-added environment. TAAC 2016 included briefings from several federal agencies (DoD, NASA, DHS, DOE, DOI), aviation user groups such as AOPA, AIA, as well as universities, and private industry. This year’s TAAC included briefings from the FAA’s test sites, Center

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