AUSA 2024: Quantum-Systems targets big 2025 with UAS developments
Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
As the AUVSI’s Unmanned Vehicles conference opened its exhibition hall to attendees, a leading panellist at the general session called for easier access to US-based training areas for small commercial UAS operators.
Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works, said that there should be an experimental license to allow US-based testing by smaller companies and start-ups.
‘There needs to be an evolution of regulations and a framework in which the regulations can evolve. More safe testing areas are needed and people shouldn’t have to go out of the country for testing,’ she said.
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Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
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