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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 15 June 2011 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | unmanned aircraft; UAS |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| Title | UND-led $11.4 million unmanned-aircraft project (Limited Deployment of Cooperative Aircraft) |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1133213076/?terms=unmanned |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-06-15|grand-forks-herald|und-ldcap-4-million-uas |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page A1: 2011-06-15-grand-forks-herald-page.jpg
- page A5: 2011-06-15-grand-forks-herald-a5.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U9vqOy5tmxAI-5y7Uyjb3iP6t3U53K83

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Erik Burgess, Herald staff writer, reported that an $11.4 million collaborative research project led by UND may soon add to an already lengthy resume of unmanned aircraft accomplishments in North Dakota. Research on unmanned aircraft to be completed by the Limited Deployment of Cooperative Aircraft Project could assist North Dakota in becoming a future national test site for unmanned aircraft, UND officials said. The project proposal, drafted by research and unmanned aircraft officials from UND and North Dakota State University, will be presented to a state commission within the next month in order to approve a $4 million state investment for unmanned aircraft research and technology production over the next two years. The ultimate goal was to create flying technology that would make it safer for unmanned aircraft systems to fly in national airspace. Jump, page A5: Al Palmer, director of the UAS Center of Excellence at UND, said “The Holy Grail is to get UAS integrated into national airspace system.” UND would receive $2.7 million of the proposed budget and $1.3 million would go to NDSU. The universities will also receive help from NASA, the North Dakota National Guard, the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission and a Massachusetts-based research center called MITRE; the agencies have already promised a combined $7.4 million toward the project. Palmer said Sen. John Hoeven was a crucial part in pushing the FAA to include test sites in NextGen plans. A critical step is “sense and avoid” technology, which allows an unmanned aircraft to sense other objects in the sky to avoid collisions. UND will work with MITRE to create a software system that can read signals from the ground and sky, create a “common air picture” and send a report to the aircraft’s controller on the ground. For ADS-B to function, ground-based transmitters and satellites are needed; eight ground transmitters are already installed across the state. NDSU’s Philip Boudjouk said the university has a strong background in microelectronics. The LDCAP has been in the works for more than a year. Reach Burgess at eburgess@gfherald.com.

**Kinematic object.** UND/NDSU cooperative UAS research aircraft (LDCAP; North Dakota test-site bid).

**Coverage frame.** civil / research

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Grand Forks Herald staff on a local UND/NDSU UAS research package and state test-site bid.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. No wire byline on the UAS teaser.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Verified from A1 teaser plus A5 jump scan OCR. A5 columns interleave with an unrelated court story; locked names/dollars were readable.
- What was excluded: Fighting Sioux nickname story and 911-dispatch feature (Eric Hylden photo is the dispatch center, not a UAS airframe).

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a state-backed UND UAS airspace-integration project aimed at an FAA test-site designation.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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