AIRVERSITY DRONE PILOT HANGAR: 10/10/24 CHIEF CHARLES WERNER, Director, DRONERESPONDERS
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Thursday, October 10 2024
Join us October 10th, 2024, at 6:30pm CST, for the Drone Pilot Hangar. Our guest will be Chief Charles Werner, Director of DRONERESPONDERS. Chief Charles L. Werner (Ret.) has served 50 years in public safety. Charles served 37 years with the Charlottesville VA Fire Dept., serving the last ten years as fire chief. Charles has served in numerous leadership roles, at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Charles presently serves as Founder/Director, of DRONERESPONDERS. DRONERESPONDERS has become the largest and leading nonprofit program to advance public safety UAS with over 9700 members with participation from 89 countries, and focused on drones for good, countering UAS, UTM, and AAM.
Charles serves as a public safety representative on the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility Alliance. In 2023, Charles joined the Virginia Department of Aviation as Aviation Technology Advisor to work in the public safety areas of UAS, CUAS, and AAM.
Chief Werner serves on the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) Unmanned Systems Board of Advisors, the Airborne International Response Team Board of Directors, the VIPC Public Safety Innovation Center Advisory Board, the NextGen Advisory Board, a SME on UAS and AAM for MITRE.
Chief Werner has a 3-year NASA Space Act Agreement (through DRONERESPONDERS) to work on safety issues of UAS, UTM, and AAM. DRONERESPONDERS also has a 3-year NIST grant to further the expanded use of the NIST Standard Test Lanes to teach and measure public safety maneuvering skills.
Charles presently serves as Founder/Director, of DRONERESPONDERS. DRONERESPONDERS has become the largest and leading nonprofit program to advance public safety UAS with over 9700 members with participation from 89 countries, and focused on drones for good, countering UAS, UTM, and AAM.
Charles serves as a public safety representative on the Virginia Advanced Air Mobility Alliance. In 2023, Charles joined the Virginia Department of Aviation as Aviation Technology Advisor to work in the public safety areas of UAS, CUAS, and AAM.
Chief Werner serves on the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) Unmanned Systems Board of Advisors, the Airborne International Response Team Board of Directors, the VIPC Public Safety Innovation Center Advisory Board, the NextGen Advisory Board, a SME on UAS and AAM for MITRE.
Chief Werner has a 3-year NASA Space Act Agreement (through DRONERESPONDERS) to work on safety issues of UAS, UTM, and AAM. DRONERESPONDERS also has a 3-year NIST grant to further the expanded use of the NIST Standard Test Lanes to teach and measure public safety maneuvering skills.
