03:21 - What is Remote ID?
04:26 - Why does Remote ID matter?
09:10 - History and Status of Remote ID
13:00 - Basic Concept of Operations
14:14 - ASTM F38 Remote ID and Tracking Standard
16:03 - Function Basics of Remote ID
17:13 - Current Challenges
19:24 - Incentives for Voluntary Compliance
20:30 - Takeaways and Future Steps
23:18 - Q&A - Question: Is the ID for the drones going to fixed or assignable at the time of the flight?
24:05 - Q&A - Question: What is the cost to Part 107 operators for Remote ID?
25:32 - Q&A - Question: What considerations are taken regarding interruptions of control of the UAS in the air after identifying that the drone is threatening?
26:51 - Q&A - Question: Does Remote ID for UAV work like a Mode C transponder in an airplane?

Welcome to the UAS Cluster Initiative webinar series. My name is Amanda Radovic. I'm the Program Manager for the UAS Cluster Initiative.

On our screen is our speaker today, Kraettli Epperson. Today's topic is Remote ID. What is it? Why is it important?

So, we're going to take about a half an hour today to explore this important topic that has become especially relevant in UAS today.

Our speaker today is an expert in the field. Kraettli Epperson is the CEO and founder of Vigilant Aerospace Systems. They provide airspace management and autonomous collision avoidance software for unmanned aircraft based on a patent exclusively licensed from NASA.

Mr. Epperson has a 20-year career as a serial entrepreneur and investor in technology startups in both the US and Europe. He's a frequent expert speaker at major UAS industry conferences such as InterDrone , Xponential, the UAS Summit and Expo and more addressing topics such as unmanned aircraft detect-and-avoid and UAS flight safety and airspace management systems for commercial operators, fleet managers, and unmanned airfields.

Kraettli is also the co-author, with NASA Sr. Research Engineer Ricardo Arteaga, of multiple industry research papers on autonomous systems and is also an FAA certified Part 107 remote pilot.

As we get started this will be a brief 30-minute webinar to introduce you to Remote ID and Kraettli, with that, we welcome you and appreciate you sharing this topic with us today and are interested in learning more about why Remote ID is so important today.

I really appreciate the gracious introduction Amanda. That gives everybody a good background. I'm Kraettli Epperson. I'm going to be talking very briefly about Remote ID for commercial unmanned aircraft systems. What is it? How does it work, and why does it matter?

Just to give a little bit of background to start with. Our company Vigilant Aerospace Systems provides automatic detect-and-avoid systems and airspace management systems both for drones and for droneports or fleets, fixed locations or mobile locations, that are enabling advanced unmanned aircraft operations. This is all based on a NASA patent and we do work closely with NASA Armstrong out in California.

We are headquartered in Oklahoma City. My name is Kraettli Epperson. I'm a software entrepreneur. I'm a Part 107 operator and also a member of the ASTM F38 committee, which is a national and international committee that is helping to write standards right now for the operation of unmanned aircraft. That'll be important as I talk about some of the progress of Remote ID in the industry today.

I've also served on the NASA UTM sense-and-avoid/detection-avoid working group, which has been a great way to be sure that we're involved and aware of the development of all of the protocols around UTM, particularly for deconfliction.

Here's a couple of photos. The one at the bottom is probably of the most interest, which is what the display screen looks like when you use our software.

Remote ID when we use that term is both a regulation and a technology. As a technical function, Remote ID is the ability to radio broadcast or update, via a network connection, the flight location of a particular drone to a central database, server or system that allows that drone to be tracked and allows the ID and the owner or operator of that drone to be known.

At a really basic level, that's the technical function and what it provides really is the idea of a license plate for unmanned aircraft and I'll talk a little bit about why that's so important.

As a regulation, when we say Remote ID as a regulation, it's a regulatory requirement and a process by which law enforcement or Public Safety or other authorized personnel can quickly identify the registered operator of a particular unmanned aircraft. It might also include other information about the mission, payload, or other things about that particular aircraft. But, when we say Remote ID, those are the really fundamental things that we're talking about.

So, why does remote ID matter? Remote ID matters, first and foremost, as a national security and public safety… Read more: Vigilantaerospace.com/new-video-remote-id-for-commercial-uas.