John Coffey

Brief Topic: Operational Impact of Data Collected from the Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft During SHOUT The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM) hosted the Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum in Miami 13-15March to bring together the Federal hurricane community: the operational forecast centers; weather modelers; aerial, ocean, satellite, and radar observing groups; and the supporting research functions. The hurricane experts review last year’s hurricane challenges, plan operations for the upcoming […]

C-UAS’ Director, Brad Whitby, to brief and identify NOAA scientists as technical leads for existing and future C-UAS R&D opportunities. The NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office (UASPO) has funded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) to conduct UAS R&D for platforms, sensors and applications to examine NOAA observation requirements. Purpose of the Meeting:    C-UAS was established in 2012 and is an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center involving Brigham Young

The Raytheon Coyote UAV team received the 2018 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Defense category for Dual Use: Raytheon Coyote UAV for flying into and waiting in the eye of Hurricane Maria, allowing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to better forecast how intense the storm would be at landfall and more accurately estimate the magnitude of the storm surge.

NOAA UAS Program’s support acknowledged in the EPOCH study of East Pacific Origin and Characteristics of Hurricanes The impacts of Harvey, Irma, and Maria during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season re-emphasized the critical need for accurate operational forecasts. The combined NASA East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH) and NOAA UAS field campaign during August 2017 was the fourth campaign in a series of dual agency partnerships between NASA and NOAA to improve forecasting

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) will co-host the FAA’s 3rd annual Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium on March 6-8, 2018 at the Baltimore Convention Center. The 2018 UAS Symposium provided stakeholders with the opportunity to talk face-to-face with a cross-section of government and industry representatives about regulations, research and initiatives to integrate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS).  This year’s agenda (attached)