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New Research Indicates Florida Government Drone Programs Need More Time to Transition to Blue UAS

95% of agencies surveyed cite “negative impact” in the near term from creation of the Florida Approved Drone Manufacturers list

The following is a guest post by Christopher Todd, President of the AUVSI Florida Peninsula Chapter and the Executive Director of AIRT, Inc., the nation’s leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting drones for emergency use and official home of DRONERESPONDERS.  DRONELIFE neither accepts nor makes payment for guest posts.

New research conducted by the Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting the use of drones for public safety and disaster response and home to the DRONERESPONDERS program, has found that Florida public safety agencies and other government entitles who operate drones need more time to transition to recent legislative changes regulating government sUAS…