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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology ERAST ERAST is an acronym for Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology. The ERAST Alliance  was started by NASA in fiscal year 1994 to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and miniaturization of science instruments and sensors that can be carried by those aircraft. The Altair Technology Demonstration Program is described in a program overview here. The ERAST program is managed by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. A pair of MLB Company, APV-3 UASs are used as a test bed systems for the Networked UAV Teaming Experiment. Dryden also hosts the Earth Science Capabilities Demonstration Project (ESCD). NASA HALE ROA Project The NASA HALE High Altitude Long Endurance ROA Project has been active since May 2004. The program was initiated in conjunction with other branches of government and industry consortium UNITE / ACCESS 5 to systematically develop policies, procedures and technical standards to enable remotely or autonomously operated aircraft to fly safely, reliably and routinely within the nation's civil air space and has resulted in excellent progress as reported at this NASA Dryden site. NASA Civil UAV Assessment Team  The NASA Civil UAV Team is tasked with the following performance requirements (see also Dryden CAT homepage): To determine and document potential future civil missions for UAVs based on user-defined needs. To determine and document the technologies necessary to support those future missions. To discuss the present state of the platform capabilities and required technologies; identifying those in progress, those planned, and those for which no current plans exist. Provide the foundations for development of a comprehensive civil UAV roadmap. The Civil UAV Capabilities Assessment Team consists of the Suborbital Science Program, the US Climate Change Science Program, the NASA/NOAA/DOE Collaboration for the Utilization of Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles, the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and the Suborbital Science Program Future Mission Concept Development Team, the Earth Sun System Technology Office. UAVM.com  Site Map