AUVSI Green UAS Program – DRONELIFE

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

AUVSI announced today the launch of Green UAS, a program seeking to verify a greater number of commercial UAS in line with the highest levels of cybersecurity and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) supply chain requirements.

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Based on the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)’s Blue UAS certification program, Green UAS is meant for customers without an immediate need for Department of Defense (DoD) authority to operate. Green UAS also provides a​ simpler ​pathway to the Blue UAS 2.0 cleared list.

Green UAS is the next step in drone security certification for the growing number of customers utilizing commercial drones. Customers include federal government agencies, local law enforcement, first responders and state departments of transportation; and industrial enterprise users such as energy and utilities,…