Welcome! NASA / DHS UAV Capabilities Assessment Workshop

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Welcome!NASA / DHS UAV Capabilities Assessment
Workshop

• July 6 7, 2005
• Herndon, VA

Note This workshop is an open forum, no ITAR
restrictions
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Workshop Structure
DHS/NASA High Level Briefings
Areas of Collaboration?
Future Mission Analysis
Future UAV Technology Brief
Civil UAV Capability Assessment
today
2015
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Civil UAV Capabilities Assessment

• Task Develop a Civil UAV Capability Assessment
  (2015 Time Frame)
• Customers Sub-Orbital Science Program, Vehicle
  Systems Program
• Complement DOD roadmap
• Homeland Security, Commercial, Land and Coastal
  Regions Management, Earth Science focus areas
• Objectives
• Influence the management of the UAV technology
  portfolio based on user defined future needs and
  missions
• Broad civil arena assessment vetted with
  participating agencies NASA, NOAA, DOE, U. S.
  Forest Service, etc.
• Initial draft version is available via web-site
  http//www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/civuav
  /index.html
• Information sources for initial version 35
  missions
• primarily Earth science missions (SSMF, GSFC
  Earth Science Missions, NASA/DOE/NOAA workshops
  and UAV Initiative Advocacy)
• 21 basic technologies and capabilities identified
  to support missions