Overview
Workshop Summary

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The purpose of this workshop was to identify capabilities needed in future civil UAV’s to enable informed funding decisions on key technologies. This is focused to reveal science sensor technology gap data in more details than just miniaturization and to include a section on assessment. We also need to determine power and propulsion technology shortfall data.

Our task is to develop a Civil UAV Capability Assessment for a 2015 Time Frame. We are intending to serve the Sub-Orbital Science Program (Yuhas), the Vehicle Systems Program (Camacho) and to complement the DOD roadmap. We will consider Homeland Security, Commercial, Land Management, and Earth Sciences.

Our objectives are to document future missions of civil UAVs based on user defined needs, the technologies necessary to support those missions; to discuss SOA of those technologies, identifying those in progress, those planned, and those for which no current plans exist. We also intend to provide the foundations for development of a comprehensive civil UAV roadmap

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