In Attendance:
- Justin Adams – CRASAR
- Larry Boggus – Memorial Villiages PD
- Russell D’Oench – Missouri City Police Dept.
- Kristina Francis – FBC OEM
- Calvin Gadberry – LaPorte Fire Dept
- Ammy Gierzak – HC OHSEM
- Patrick Hagan – Houston Fire Department
- Brandon Karr – Pearland Police Department
- Travis Koryciak – HPD
- Aaron Lysack – Bellaire PD
- Lach Mullen – FBC OEM
- Steve Runge – Houston Airport System
- Divy Shrivastava – Paladin Drones
- Warren Simon – Missouri City PD
- Erik Sweet – Pasadena OEM
- Lee Tankersley – Harris County IT
- James Urban – Missouri City PD
- Alan Venneman – Sugar Land GIS
- Welcome/Introductions
- Sign-in Sheet
- Introductions
- Presentations
- The Year Ahead for the sUAS Work Group (Hagan/Mullen)
- Working meetings
- Focus on products that benefit the region
- Co-chaired by COH and FBC
- Attempt to standardize and raise bar for professionalism
- Advisory group for grant applications, funds don’t go to “every Steve with sticks,” but to professionals with a program.
- Qualified people might not have directions, and we can streamline that coordination
- Push something up the chain that can help with grant process
- The Year Ahead for the sUAS Work Group (Hagan/Mullen)
- Status Reports
- None
- New Business
- Reviewed work group scope
- Reviewed work group schedule (every 2nd Thursday of the month)
- Regional grant proposal
- Training for tactical operations
- Projects for group to address
- “Is it legal, is it not?”
- Finding daily uses to help the public stay pro-drone
- Develop tips for PR component of program building.
- Raising professional standards to reduce risks of accidents
- Documenting the process and best practices for COAs
- Sharing COAs?
- Emergency COAs vs Jurisdictional COAs, who do you call when you need something.
- Reviewing and summarizing policy and law at State and Fed level.
- State Law TGC 423
- FAA Part 107
- Other CFR
- New DOT draft interpretations of FAA authorization act
- What does it take to actually get set up to fly? What do you need to do when its time to fly?
- How do you get internal buy-in at high levels?
- Insurance and risk management issues.
- Where do you start equipment-wise?
- Deployment teams so we can all help each other. Mutual aid? Credentialing of personnel? Certification of equipment.
- Some agencies worry more or less about payment and reimbursement, but it should be addressed.
- Find out who is using what and where
- Fighting “rogue IT”
- Quick-start guide. “Program checklists.”
- Socializing a UAS program to high-level officials (priority item?)
- Attaining some sort of shared airspace waivers we can all use
- Facilitating air operations in a disaster
- Airspace management plan
- Contacts for towers
- Contact list of who is who in the region.
- How will agencies on different radio systems coordinate air operations?
- Help for law enforcement interdiction and counter-drone technology
- How do we credential or verify pilots for mutual aid?
- CRASAR Tech 1 & 2 is a start
- NFPA 2400 is a guideline
- NIST course doesn’t teach you how to fly, but may turn into a certification
- AUVSI has Trusted Operator Program
- Define operational use cases
- Group attempt to define MAA to use within the region
- Bring in outside help as needed, let’s see what others have done
- Attempt to come up with a simple MAA that will allow mutual co-deployment within region
- Training
- Pearland wants to be a training hub for GC region, including 107 class.
- CRASAR is working on a train-the-trainer program for agencies within region that want to train on their own
- CRASAR Tech 1&2 class in April in FBC
- Look into offering Air Operations/AIRboss training in region
- Old Business
- None
- Next Meeting Date/Adjourn
- February 14, 2019, 1:00-3:00 P.M. (HEC Room 2081)
- Presentation: Center for Robot-Assisted Search And Rescue
- New Business: Drafting sample MOA for sUAS mutual aid
- February 14, 2019, 1:00-3:00 P.M. (HEC Room 2081)