Central New York-based Gryphon Sensors has developed a mobile Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system called Mobile Skylight. Among its many capabilities, the Mobile Skylight system, which is equipped with a variety of self-contained multispectral sensors, provides “accurate three dimensional detection of low-flying, small UAS at a distance of out to 10 kilometers.” Mobile Skylight is contained in a “sleek, rugged van,” and is described as a “complete mobile command center” that features 4x4 off-road capability, and can be transported anywhere without a commercial driver's license. The system is designed for quick deployment for a number of different tasks, including search and rescue operations, special event security, and utility inspection, to name a few.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia will use UAS to find and protect koalas in South East Queensland. Through a two-year project, QUT will provide rapid estimates of koala abundance, using UAS and high resolution imagery. The project is being led by Dr. Grant Hamilton from QUT’s Science and Engineering Faculty, who says that the technology would “provide a robust survey method for detecting koalas and estimating their numbers.” “The primary emphasis of this project is on the ecology of koala conservation, and we are using drones and automated imaging technology as tools to assist,” Hamilton says through the school's website.

Since June, the Madison Police Department in Wisconsin has deployed its new UAS team five times. One of the times, the policed launched a UAS to help officers locate a suicidal man who was on the loose, and another time, a UAS was used to help officers map out the scene at a restaurant where a homicide and armed robbery had occurred. These are just a few examples of how the department plans on using its UAS, and according to Madison Police Lt. Mike Hanson, who commands the 11-member team, this is just the beginning for this technology. “They’re here to stay,” Hanson says via the Wisconsin State Journal.

In Hawaii, some teachers are taking a six-day class to learn how to code driverless cars, in a first of its kind program that could become a part of the curriculum in Hawaii. Teachers are learning the basics of coding, but the language is the same as what’s being used to program the same driverless cars that are currently on, or one day will be on, roads across the United States and all over the world. ​The course is being taught by Sumil Thapa, who is an engineer for a Hawaii-based engineering consultant called Oceanit. One day, Thapa taught the teachers how to program their cars to “drive into a mini garage, sense the light, back up out of the garage and then give out the light reading.”