BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130604T200000Z DTEND:20130604T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:GML: Alaska Center for UAS Integration DESCRIPTION:Featured Presentation:\n\n \n\n Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI) \n\n Presented by Greg Walker\, Director\n\n \n\n ABOUT ACUASI: \n\n The State of Alaska has an abundance of natural resources\, but its vast size over twice that of Texas has provided significant challenges for the management and exploitation of those resources. Alaska has few roads\, making aviation the only year-round way to access the farthest reaches of the state\, including almost 200 rural villages. Alaska has become an aviation-centric state with six times more pilots per-capita than the rest of the nation. For the past two decades the Department of Defense has driven the extremely rapid expansion and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military applications. The race to transition these systems for civil commercial and scientific applications provides an enormous opportunity for Alaska to develop and exploit the benefits of this new technology\; and Alaska is the best place in the country to work out the issues of separating and integrating the emerging UAS airspace from the existing National Airspace System (NAS). Read more about ACUASI.....\n\n \n\n Photo Credit: Amy Hartley\n\n \n\n 5-Minute Spotlight: \n\n \n\n "A Mini-Campaign for a Mini-Museum" by the Fairbanks Children's Museum\n\n Presented by Brenda Riley\, Executive Director\n\n \n\n One of the goals of the Fairbanks Children's Museum is to help support and grow the educational opportunities available to the youth in our community. By supporting the caregivers and families of children\, we can help to extend education beyond the classroom on a daily basis. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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\n Featured Presentation:
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\n Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI) \; \; \;
\n Presented by Greg Walker\, Director
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\n ABOUT ACUASI: \;
\n The State of Alaska has an abundance of natural resources\, but its vast size &mdash\; over twice that of Texas &mdash\; has provided significant challenges for the management and exploitation of those resources. Alaska has few roads\, making aviation the only year-round way to access the farthest reaches of the state\, including almost 200 rural villages. Alaska has become an aviation-centric state with six times more pilots per-capita than the rest of the nation. For the past two decades the Department of Defense has driven the extremely rapid expansion and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military applications. The race to transition these systems for civil commercial and scientific applications provides an enormous opportunity for Alaska to develop and exploit the benefits of this new technology\; and Alaska is the best place in the country to work out the issues of separating and integrating the emerging UAS airspace from the existing National Airspace System (NAS). \; Read more about ACUASI.....
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\n Photo Credit: Amy Hartley
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\n 5-Minute Spotlight: \;
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\n "\;A Mini-Campaign for a Mini-Museum"\; by the Fairbanks Children'\;s Museum
\n Presented by Brenda Riley\, Executive Director

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\n One of the goals of the Fairbanks Children'\;s Museum is to help support and grow the educational opportunities available to the youth in our community. \; By supporting the caregivers and families of children\, we can help to extend education beyond the classroom on a daily basis.

\n LOCATION:Carlson Center 2010 2nd Ave Fairbanks\, AK 99701 UID:e.106.6563 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260514T082930Z URL:https://www.fairbankschamber.org/events/details/gml-alaska-center-for-uas-integration-06-04-2013-6563 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR