With governments and the military reviewing and downsizing their budgets for future unmanned systems, the market for these systems may not be as healthy as it has been.  This certainly doesn't seem to be the case in the conference and events arena.  There has been a mushrooming of events in the last few years related to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, their deployment, their development and their future use and the diary for 2012 looks incredibly congested, see our Diary below.  Professional conference attendees could fill their diaries with a succession of networking events around the world.

The situation in the UK is more complex than usual this year with the London Olympics dominating the middle of the year.  Event organisers are desparately trying to identify exclusive dates, primarily before the Olympics, in an effort to maintain market position and capitalise on the current interest in these systems.  The problem for anyone entered the UAS and unmanned systems domain is which event is best suited to their needs, interest and requirements.  The events range from the costly to the free and all deliver slightly different levels of intelligence, information and business opportunity.  UAVS has its own views on these events and has reviewed the perennial ones for the benefit of its members.  If you'd like to read these reviews, click here. 

UAVS provides:

• The means for active collaboration between UAVS members to form a stronger and more cohesive UAS industry
• A professional framework for manufacturers and operators to work within
• Access to information on best practice, accredited suppliers and services, certified aircraft, pilot comptence and the latest regulatory requirements
• The positive interaction between civil, commercial and military manufacturers and operators and the transfer of skills between communities
• A recognised voice for the UAS industry in the UK at the political level to government and to the UK airspace regulators:
  
  • Formulating the future use of shared airspace both in the UK and worldwide
  • Addressing the public perception of UAS
  • Promoting of the ecological, environmental, societal and humanitarian benefits of these systems. 

UAVS welcomes the following new members:

• 3T RPD
• E Adeniji 
• A Elliott 
• Erlang Solutions Ltd 
• Gnosys Transfer SLU (ES) 
• Lead Aviation Ltd 
• Olsen Engineering UK Ltd 
• Adam Piper 
• Rexmann Ltd 
• J Richardson 
• J Samuels 
• Spacemetric Ltd 
• Swarm Systems Ltd
• S Tajudeen 
• West Wales Airport 

The 2012 Conference Season is about to get under way and here are the important dates for PDAs and diaries:

  27-Feb-12 : Defence IQ's Airborne ISR : London

  28-Mar-12 : IET's UAS Seminar : London

  02-Apr-12 : 27th Bristol International UAV Systems Conference
                    : Bristol

  18-Apr-12 : SMi's ISR Conference : London

  24-May-12 : Geospace Europe 2012 : Brussels

  30-May-12 : UAVS' 1st Industry Day of 2012 : Newport

   05-Jun-12 : UVSI's RPAS 2012 Conference & Exhibition : Paris

  26-Jun-12 : Clarion Events' Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UK : Bath 

  09-Jul-12 : Farnborough International Airshow : Farnborough

  20-Nov-12 : ASTRAEA Programme 2012 Conference : London

For more information on each of these and other UAS related events, please visit the Events page.

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As much as this website has some information on the history and evolution of UAS, there are more authoritive tomes on the subject.  UAVS recommends two recent publications.

For more information on these books, click here.

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