Growing civil demands for uninhabited aircraft systems (UASs) are creating pressure to determine minimum design standards and required capabilities for UAS ground control stations (GCSs). This panel will discuss recent and ongoing research initiatives, regulatory guidance, and lessons learned from military UAS operations and mishap reports to shed light on the potential for GCS designs to support safe and non-disruptive UAS operations in the national airspace system (NAS). As part of this discussion, panelists will present GCS design challenges related to the preservation of NAS safety and traffic flow and will suggest strategies for overcoming them.
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