It seems as if ages have passed since last New Year’s Eve, when the FAA issued its long-anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking document, spelling out how it intended to establish standards for remote identification (Remote ID) of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). This was a whole year after the FAA first issued a request for information in December 2018, calling on the industry to help the agency explore possible technological solutions for Remote ID. That move was based on recommendations that the UAS Identification and Tracking Aviation Rulemaking Committee had established back in June 2017. So the protracted process has already spanned almost the entire duration of the current U.S. administration and now seems in danger of timing out in the wake of November's presidential election.
The UAS Identification and Tracking Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), chartered by the FAA in June 2017, submitted its report and recommendations to the agency on technologies available to identify and track drones in flight and other associated issues.
