联邦航空局拨款1200万美元支持无人机研究 19家公司在指定试验场测试安全融入技术
美国联邦航空局（FAA）10月5日宣布，通过无人机系统（UAS）广泛机构公告计划，向19家公司授予共1,200万美元，用于无人机研究与测试项目，帮助无人机安全融入国家空域系统。
获资助公司将与FAA指定的无人机试验场合作，测试和评估探测避让、空中交通管理、身份识别等技术。名单包括通用原子公司（General Atomics）的无人机避让地面系统、ANRA Technologies的空中出租车与垂直起降场连接工具、DroneUp的无人机身份验证方案等。
FAA局长布莱恩·贝德福德（Bryan Bedford）表示，该计划让FAA能直接与业界和试验场伙伴合作，获取更好的数据、识别运行挑战，为无人机安全融入空域提供决策依据。FAA称，这批拨款落实了「释放美国无人机主导地位」行政令关于充分利用无人机试验场的要求。
FAA Awards $12 Million to 19 Companies for Drone Research Supporting Safe Airspace Integration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on October 5 that it has awarded $12 million to 19 companies for drone research and testing projects that will help safely expand drone operations in the National Airspace System.
The awards, made through the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Broad Agency Announcement Program, fund companies working with FAA-designated UAS test sites to test and evaluate detect-and-avoid, traffic management and identification technologies. Funded projects include General Atomics' ground systems to help drones avoid other aircraft, ANRA Technologies' tools connecting air taxi operations and vertiports, and DroneUp's secure drone identity verification.
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the program gives the agency another way to work directly with industry and test-site partners, producing better data to identify operational challenges and inform safe integration. The FAA said the awards advance the Unleashing American Drone Dominance executive order by making full use of the UAS test sites.
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图片来源：图：无人机飞行训练。摄影：美国土地管理局俄勒冈与华盛顿办公室，公共领域，来源：Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Drone flight training. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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