
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a series of steps Aug. 2 to expand the federal government’s use of and support for unmanned aircraft systems.The U.S. Department of the Interior, which has already flown UAS to monitor wildlife, perform archeological studies and fight wildfires, will build on that activity by prototyping and fielding new sensors and speeding up the processing of UAS-collected data, OSTP said. The department also will set up a program to train…