GML: Alaska Center for UAS Integration

Featured Presentation:

Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI)   
Presented by Greg Walker, Director

ABOUT ACUASI: 
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.....

Photo Credit: Amy Hartley

5-Minute Spotlight: 

"A Mini-Campaign for a Mini-Museum" by the Fairbanks Children's Museum
Presented by Brenda Riley, Executive Director

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.