Every year AIAA has training for the Section Officers. This training comes in a variety of ways: Webinars, Region Advisory Committee (RAC) meetings, and the annual Regional Leadership Conference. The Regional Leadership Conferences are a great opportunity to meet fellow officers from the many different sections within AIAA. AIAA Regions and Sections vary in size from a few dozen people to many hundreds of people. The Regional Leadership Confer...

The confluence of machine intelligence and aeronautics is the next great revolution in air transportation. In attempting to introduce an entirely new approach to vehicle management into the world’s safest transportation system, the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry must merge two entirely different cultures: 1) Aviation safety-based and inherently risk averse2) Market-driven and experiment-based — while managing performance an...