Drone Delivery Group presents drone strategy

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The Drone Delivery Group, a not-for-profit UK drone industry initiative, has presented the government with its ‘National Strategy for Drones Across Land, Sea and Air’.

The white paper aims to provide a national strategy for autonomous drone technology to accelerate growth rapidly, safely and efficiently.

It was submitted to government by the group, which comprises over 400 industry experts, commentators and stakeholders. The Drone Delivery Group said it received extensive support from feedback during its consultation period.

Robert Garbett, chairman of the senior advisory board of the Drone Delivery Group, said: “PWC recently revised its forecast for the economic benefit of drone technology, estimating it at £45bn in contributions and £22bn in net savings to UK plc by 2030, equivalent to some 1.6 per cent of projected GDP… and this estimate focuses solely on the use of drones in the air! Consider land, maritime and air drones together, and you have a huge growth opportunity which is ready to be taken forward now.”

One of the key concerns driving the need for the strategy is to address the current lack of harmonisation between the application of regulations and industry standards between air, land and maritime drones, the group said.

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