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ANG 23 A Change AZ
Category
ANG
State
Arizona
Type Draft
Change Item
State Association First Name
John
State Association Last Name
Vitt
Proposal Statement
Change #23 A to: "Procuring and demonstration funding of a Ground Based and Airborne Sense and Avoid (GBSAA / ABSAA) and Detect and Avoid (DAA) capability to allow ANG remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS) with no restrictions. "
Recommendation Information
The Air National Guard fleet of the MQ-9 unmanned aerial system will grow from 30 to approximately 72 platforms in the inventory. In order to fly in US airspace under FAA rules, the aircraft must have "Sense and Avoid" or "Due Regard" systems for absolute assured safe separation from commercial aircraft. Congress has tasked the FAA with integrating remotely piloted aircraft into the National Airspace System by September 2015, but the Air National Guard has no Airborne Sense and Avoid program in place to respond.
Future MQ-9 systems will be integrated with a Airborne Sense and Avoid System, but current systems do not have this capability.
FY-17 funds are urgently needed to allow the Air National Guard to conduct a near-term demonstration utilizing an off-the-shelf system that can provide an initial capability for its MQ-9 fleet until the Air Force develops a common system for all unmanned aircraft.
Providing this funding for the off-the shelf demonstration system that provides basic capability is the only way to ensure that the Air National Guard can fly its MQ-9 aircraft in the national airspace without a chase aircraft or narrowly focused ground based sense and avoid system in this decade.
Future MQ-9 systems will be integrated with a Airborne Sense and Avoid System, but current systems do not have this capability.
FY-17 funds are urgently needed to allow the Air National Guard to conduct a near-term demonstration utilizing an off-the-shelf system that can provide an initial capability for its MQ-9 fleet until the Air Force develops a common system for all unmanned aircraft.
Providing this funding for the off-the shelf demonstration system that provides basic capability is the only way to ensure that the Air National Guard can fly its MQ-9 aircraft in the national airspace without a chase aircraft or narrowly focused ground based sense and avoid system in this decade.
Resolution No.
23
Item No
A
Fiscal Year
2017
State Association Email
State Association Phone Number
602-769-4999
