NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION GATHER THE HIGHEST EXPERTS OF RPAS IN THE CIVIL UAV’S INITIATIVE THEATRE OF 2022 EXPODRONICA PAVILION
On next 22 of June at 12 hours in the Civil UAV’s Inititive Theatre of 2022 Expodronica Pavilion, the DSAE/DIRCAM Airspace Subdirector, several Head of EDA & NATO Projects and members from different international Air Forces will be met to talk about the collaboration between NATO and the EU on RPAS in a civil-military context and all the current and future challenges that this entails
Madrid, 6 May 2022. The ninth edition of Expodronica, sponsored by UMILES Group, gathers, in the context of World ATM Congress, the highest experts of the sector who will talk about the collaboration between NATO and the European Union on RPAS in a civil-military context and all the current and future challenges that this entails in its Civil Theatre.
These talks have the purpose of sharing awareness on NATO-EU Cooperation in the context of UAS, addressing safety aspects, current solutions and regulatory framework, highlighting operational issues and Identifying civil-military cooperation opportunities.
Below, a timetable with the different talks is exposed:
- 12:00 – 12:05 Welcome and introduction by the moderator. Colonel Arturo Cuartero, ATM Section in the ES Air Force Staff
- 12:05 – 12:20 What is feasible today:
- 12:05 – 12:20 MALE: MALE: Cross border flight France-Spain: Description of the Mission – Platform details – Civil and military roles – Lessons learned and way ahead. Christophe Hindermann
- 12:15 – 12:20 HALE: AGS-NAGSF: Current Standard Operations procedures – Operational challenges. Lt Col. LUCA “Gag” GAGLIARDI, NAGSF OPS flight squadron pilot, Italian Air Force
- 12:20 – 12:35 What will be feasible tomorrow:
- 12:20 – 12:25 Autonomy for emergency management: SAFETERM. Juan Ignacio del Valle, Project Officer, EDA UAS Programmes
- 12:25 – 12:30 U-space challenges. Nathalie Hasevoets, EDA Project officer UAS Certification and ATM Research
- 12:30 – 12:35 RPAS readiness initiative provides a strategy. Ross McKenzie, Staff Officer NATO Unmanned Aircraft and automated systems
- 12:35 – 13:00 Questions & Answers and Conclusions & Closing remarks
- 12:35 – 12:50 Questions & Answers
- 12:50 – 13:00 Conclusions. Michael Callender, NATO Head of AER Capabilities
- Conclusions: Christophe Vivier, EDA Head of Single European Sky Unit
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