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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 | 18 July 2015 |
| 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 systems; UAS; Remotely Piloted Aircraft; Predator |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| Title | UND’s key role in UAS deserves attention |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1136400076/?terms=UAS |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-07-18|grand-forks-herald|bridewell-und-uas |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2015-07-18-grand-forks-herald-bridewell-und-uas.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vXHLTJaJN6V5eWhhGKAB_ObEa0zYttcd

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** John Bridewell, professor of aviation at UND’s Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, wrote a Herald viewpoint that a July 8 Herald editorial (“UAS industry in Grand Forks continues to soar,” Page A4) omitted UND’s role in bringing UAS to North Dakota. He said Ben Trapnell and Doug Marshall were instrumental in developing the first UAS degree program, fully supported by President Robert Kelley and Dean Bruce Smith, and that UAS director Paul Palmer has been relentless in pushing industry, military, and academic relationships. Over five years earlier, then-Sen. Byron Dorgan brokered a Cooperative Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Bridewell wrote that UND is the only university with a Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft training course; that it has four types of UAS simulators, two that exist nowhere else outside the military; that Andrew Kuelbs and John Wold in the Scientific Computing Center built a Predator simulator from scratch in Clifford Hall; and that Neil Nowatski, Henry Borysewicz and the Aerospace Network built Predator teaching tools “that even the Air Force and General Atomics don’t have.” Those efforts, he wrote, are why General Atomics chose to locate in Grand Forks. He thanked the Herald for supporting Grand Sky (a $56 million check is “greatly appreciated”) but argued the substance is what goes on inside the buildings and hangars — including UND graduates sought by every UAS company, including General Atomics.

**Kinematic object.** UND UAS training/simulators (MALE RPA course; Predator simulator, Clifford Hall) and Grand Sky industrial park.

**Coverage frame.** industry / university

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: First local print of the Odegard aviation professor’s signed rebuttal naming UND’s UAS degree, AFRL agreement, and Predator simulators.
- Wire reprint status: Signed local viewpoint (John Bridewell), not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on a 4×8 cacheable-tile stitch of the A4 opinion page. Hed, byline, July 8 editorial hook, Dorgan/AFRL, MALE RPA uniqueness, Predator simulator names, and General Atomics siting are locked. Liberal-arts funding aside is cut.
- What was excluded: “Find the Good Life” SPA editorial and the Landrith postal-service viewpoint.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Lab. A Watch desk would have logged UND as the only university MALE-RPA trainer and a Predator-simulator house already used to draw General Atomics to Grand Forks.

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