NASA official: There's money in drones
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Syracuse, N.Y. — NASA's chief investigator of ways to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles into the nation's commercial airspace says the remotely controlled aircraft could have a big economic impact on the nation — and Central New York in particular.Parimal Kopardekar, principal investigator of Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Management for NASA, told more than 1,000 people at CenterState CEO's annual meeting at the Oncenter Thursday that UAVs are projected to be an $82 billion business in the United State in 10 years...
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