The Affiliation for Uncrewed Car Programs Worldwide (AUVSI) will host its 2023 Hill Day subsequent week, returning for the primary time in-person on Capitol Hill since September 2019. Members will likely be obtainable for scheduled conferences with the press.
The one-day occasion brings collectively main U.S firms and specialists in uncrewed automobiles, autonomous applied sciences and robotics. AUVSI’s Advocacy-level members work within the air, floor, maritime and cyber domains and serve the business, civil and protection sectors.
“Autonomy already makes car applied sciences safer for his or her operators and customers, whether or not they’re navy personnel, common automobile homeowners, or long-haul truck drivers. Regulators must modernize how they take a look at and validate these methods to deploy them extra shortly and safely to their customers. New testing instruments like modeling and simulation software program enable companies like DOD, FAA, and NHTSA to run higher exams at scale, together with these overlaying situations that may be practically unimaginable to duplicate in the true world. We’re excited to work with AUVSI to induce Congress to offer the sources and oversight to those companies to undertake modeling and simulation instruments that allow higher testing and validation of autonomous methods,” mentioned Sunmin Kim, Director of Public Coverage at Utilized Instinct, a member of AUVSI’s Floor, Air and Maritime Advocacy Committees.
Members of AUVSI’s Board of Administrators and native chapter leaders will even take part. They comprise native enterprise homeowners and constituents from Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.
Shared priorities that individuals will advocate for embody:
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Sustaining U.S. management and world competitiveness in know-how innovation
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2023 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization
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The President’s Finances and FY 2024 appropriations
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Division of Protection acquisition reform
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The protected integration of economic autonomous automobiles nationwide
Michael Robbins, Chief Advocacy Officer at AUVSI mentioned: “For AUVSI and our members, our return to Capitol Hill comes at a beneficial time as FAA Reauthorization work begins and shortly after launch of the President’s FY 2024 Finances. We plan to lift to members of Congress that now’s a vital second for supporting the home know-how and manufacturing base. If Congress doesn’t modernize rules at a speedy tempo, we danger ceding management in rising applied sciences to look nations and rising opponents.”
