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Spring 2014 unmanned systems inside 35 35 inside unmanned systems Spring 2014 5 3 ContaCt test Ranges Jon Greene Interim Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) and the Virginia Tech UAS test site Office: 540-231-8566 MObile: 540-553-5846 eMail: greenej@vt.edu Web: http://www.devtest.ictas.vt.edu/ Kentland experimental aerial systems Laboratory nasa Langley Research Center nasa Wallops Flight Facility Maryland eastern shore Chesapeake Bay areas off the atlantic coast and naval air Warfare Center at Patuxent River with additional potential test sites including the new Jersey air national guard Warren grove gunnery Range MAAP's Interim Executive Director Jon Greene, and will be able to apply its extensive experience in air traffic control, modeling and airspace simulation to the challenge. Like Virginia Tech, which has experience developing ground and marine autonomous systems, Rutgers works across all domains. The school developed the Webb Slocum glider, an underwater vehicle that collects data as it moves through the ocean by taking in and expelling water, said Tom Farris, dean of the School of Engineering. Rutgers is also work- ing on integrating different kinds of unmanned systems and airspace for those who, for ex- ample, need a platform to test sensors. With test locations less than an hours drive from Washington, MAAP also of- fers a particular advantage to those pitching ideas to the fed- eral government, said Greene. "It would be very useful to be able to do demonstrations for your potential customers." "I think we have an extremely broad capability," said Greene. "That's what you get when you have three research universi- ties with very close relation- ships with some of the primary research centers in the federal government looking at the field of unmanned aircraft." FAA test sites 4 InCentIves MaaP states offer incentives for frms, particularly larger organizations, to relocate. the states also offer some support for frms seeking seed money, said Jon Greene, interim executive director. In addition coalition members are working with state offcials to craft packages that could assist very small but promising companies. David Schmale, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech (pictured here and to the right) uses unmanned aircraft to take samples of microbes that populate clouds. Jim Stroup/ Virginia Tech. Kevin Kochersberger (right), a pilot and an associate professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, works to usher in a new wave of aerospace vehicles. Here he is with David Reed, an extension agronomist, fnding ways to help growers monitor the condition of their crops. Photos courtesy of Virginia Tech