Drone Reading Roundup (Updated)

Disclaimer: These links were collected and accessed on April 8, 2012. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather is a short bibliography of recent articles on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV/ sUAV) and drones, with a primary focus on the legal and policy issues surrounding their use within the United States.

FAA LEGISLATION AND REGULATION OF DRONES

• The 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (H.R. 658 ENR; P.L. 112-95), signed Feb. 14, 2012, mandates that drones be fully integrated into American airspace by September 30, 2015. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.658: and http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00015

• Senate Floor Debate of Conference Report on H.R. 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2012, February 6, 2012:   http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SenateSession4969

• Conference Report on H.R. 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2012, Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 16 (February 1, 2012), House of Representatives, Pages H230 – H304, Posted to FAS Website: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2012/02/faa-uas.html

• FAA requires government and research organizations to apply for authorization before they can operate a drone. The Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), 76 Fed. Reg. 40,107 (July 7, 2011), available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-07/pdf/2011-15494.pdf#page=16.

• Press Release – FAA asks for Public Input on UAS Test Site Selection, FAA, March 7, 2012: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=13393

• FAA UAS General Information and Webinars: http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas

• Timeline for Rule-making (Geiger 2012): https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/2703drone-countdown

VIDEOS

• Drones – Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values (Video), 2012 Stanford Law Review Symposium, The Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University, February 2, 2012 (video quality of symposium poor, but discussion interesting and includes video of what’s possible to do with drones):  http://www.c-span.org/Events/Panel-Discusses-Domestic-Drones-and-Privacy/10737429618 and https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/multimedia/drones-privacy-paradox-privacy-and-its-conflicting-values-video

• The Impact of Domestic Drones on Privacy, Safety and National Security (Video), Brookings Institute, April 4, 2012: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/0404_domestic_drones.aspx

• Robots that fly…and cooperate (Video), Professor Vijay Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, GRASP Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, TEDtalks [YouTube], March 1, 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEBkj_3PY  and links to Kumar’s other YouTube videos:
  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vijay+kumar+robots&oq=vijay+kumar+robots&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=468l4998l0l5132l18l18l0l2l2l0l140l1321l13.3l16l0

REFERENCES

• Acerman, Spenser. 2011. “Occupy the Skies! Protesters Could Use Spy Drones,” Wired Magazine, November 18, 2011: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/ows-drones
• Ackerman, Evan. 2011. “Could Domestic Surveillance Drones Spur Tougher Privacy Laws?” IEEE Spectrum Blog, IEEE Website, December 19, 2011: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/could-domestic-surveillance-drones-spur-tougher-privacy-laws  

• Aftergood, Steven. 2012a. Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.,” Secrecy News, FAS Website, February 3, 2012: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/faa_drones.html
• Aftergood, Steven. 2012. “Secret Drone Technology Barred by “Political Conditions,”” Secrecy News, FAS Website, March 22, 2012: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/sandia_drone.html
• Ball, Matt. 2012. “Is there a mapping drone in your future?” V1 Magazine, March 16, 2012: http://www.vector1media.com/dialog/perspectives/26336-is-there-a-mapping-drone-in-your-future.html
• Beckhusen, Robert. 2012. “White House ‘Big Data’ Push Means Big Bucks for Drone Brains,” Wired Magazine, March 29, 2012: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/big-data
• Bennett, Brian. 2011. “Police Employ Predator Drone Spy Planes on Home Front,” Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2011: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211
• Black, Jeff. 2012. “Drones Inflicting Information Overload on Air Force,” MSNBC.Com, April 5, 2012: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/05/11042161-drones-inflicting-information-overload-on-air-force?lite#.T3652l4qbao.twitter
• Bloomberg Editors. 2012. “Drones in US Need to Fly Within Privacy Rules: View,” Bloomberg.com, March 14, 2012: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-14/drones-in-u-s-need-to-fly-within-privacy-rules-view.html
• Calo, M. Ryan. 2011. “The Drone as Privacy Catalyst,” Standford Law Review, December 12, 2011, 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 29: http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/drone-privacy-catalyst
• Calo, Ryan. 2012a. “Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy,” Wired Opinion, March 8, 2012: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/opinion-calo-drones-dogs-privacy
• Calo, Ryan. 2012b. “Who Will Regulate Robots?” The Center for Internet and Society Blog, January 20, 2012: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/01/who-will-regulate-robots
• Campoy, Ana. 2011. “The Law’s New Eye in the Sky,” Wall Street Journal, Decmeber 13, 2011: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204319004577088891361782010.html
• Cockburn, Alexander. 2011. “The Drone Empire,” October 24, 2011. Nation 293(17): 9
• Conniff, Richard. 2011. “Drones are Ready to Takeoff,”Smithsonian.com, June 2011: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Drones-are-Ready-for-Takeoff.html
• Coyle, Diane and Meier, Patrick. 2009. “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Crisis Response,” in New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks. Washington, D.C.: UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Partnership, pp 35-37.   http://www.unfoundation.org/news-and-media/publications-and-speeches/new-technologies-emergencies-conflicts.html
• Dean, Stephen. 2011. “New Police Drone In Texas Could Carry Weapons.” Officer.com, October 29, 2011: http://www.officer.com/news/10443874/new-police-drone-in-texas-could-carry-weapons
• DeGarmo, Matthew, and Nelson, Gregory M. 2004. “Prospective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations in the Future National Airspace System. Case #04-0936. McLean, VA: The MITRE Corporation, Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. https://wcmail.wilsoncenter.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=09b53e4a3ac84ff29a9182c21044c727&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwwwsrv2.mitre.org%2fwork%2ftech_papers%2ftech_papers_04%2f04_0936%2f04_0936.pdf and http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/aviation/02_05/a_uav.html
• Dery, George. 2008. Cyborg Moth’s War on Terror: The Fourth Amendment Implications of One of the Federal Government’s Emerging Surveillance Technologies. 11 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 227
• Dunlap, Travis. 2009. Comment: We’ve Got Our Eyes on You: When Surveillance by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Constitutes a Fourth Amendment Search. 51 S. Tex. L. Rev. 173, 17381
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2012. “Who Is Flying Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.?” (EFF Lawsuit) EFF Website: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/who-flying-unmanned-aircraft-us
• Emspak, Jesse. 2011. “iPhone Flies Drone from 3,000 Miles Away,” DiscoveryNews, September 28, 2011: http://news.discovery.com/tech/iphone-flies-drone-3000-miles-away-110928.html
• Fang, Lee. 2012. PowerPoint Shows Drone Industry’s Lobbying Plan to Expand Over Domestic, Law Enforcement Markets, Republic Report, April 7, 2012: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/drone-powerpoint-lobby-plan
• Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program’s UAV / UASs resources page: http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/uav.htm
• Feliz, Emily. 2012. “Editor’s Note: Drones in Airspace,” Avionics today, April 1, 2012: http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Editors-Note-Drones-in-Airspace_76006.html
• Finn, Peter. 2011a. “Domestic Use of Aerial Drones by Law Enforcement Likely to Prompt Privacy Debate,” The Washington Post, January 23, 2011: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204111.html
• Finn, Peter. 2011b. “A Future for Drones: Automated Killing,” The Washington Post, September 19, 2011: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/a-future-for-drones-automated-killing/2011/09/15/gIQAVy9mgK_story.html
• Gakstatter, Eric. 2012. “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: The FAA is Taking Them Seriously, Should You?” GSS Weekly, Geospatial Solutions, March 9, 2012: http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/gss-weekly/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-faa-taking-them-seriously-should-you-12728?utm_source=GSS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Geospatial-Weekly_03_07_2012&utm_content=unmanned-aerial-vehicles-faa-taking-them-seriously-should-you-12728
• Gallagher, Sean. 2012. “Look to the Skies: Is it Time to Stop Worrying and Love the Drone?” Ars Technica, April 8, 2012: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/look-to-the-skies-is-it-time-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-drone.ars?clicked=related_right
• Geiger, Harley. 2011. “The Drones Are Coming,” Center for Democracy and Technology Website, December 21, 2011: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/2112drones-are-coming
• Geiger, Harley. 2012a. “Congress Demands Drones Over America,” Center for Democracy and Technology Website, February 9, 2012: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/092congress-demands-drones-over-america
• Geiger, Harley. 2012b. “How Congress Should Tackle the Drone Privacy Problem,” Center for Democracy and Technology Website, March 27, 2012: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/2703how-congress-should-tackle-drone-privacy-problem
• Geiger, Harley. 2012c. “Drone Countdown,” Center for Democracy and Technology Website, March 27, 2012: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/2703drone-countdown
• Gertler, Jeremiah. 2012. U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems (R42136). January 3, 2012. Washington: Congressional Research Service: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/180677.pdf
• Greenberg, Andy. 2011. “Flying Drone Can Crack Wi-Fi Networks, Snoop on Cell Phone,” Forbes, July 28, 2011: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/07/28/flying-drone-can-crack-wifi-networks-snoop-on-cell-phones
• Greenwald, Glenn. 2011. “NPR’s Domestic Drone Commercial,” Salon Magazine Online, December 6, 2011: http://politics.salon.com/2011/12/06/nprs_domestic_drone_commercial/singleton
• Goodwin, Jacob. 2012. “DHS Looking for Vendors to Perform ‘Remote Sensing’ Airborne Photography,” Government Security News, February 8, 2012: http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25608?c=disaster_preparedness_emergency_response
• Gorman, Siobhan, Dreazen, Yochi J., and Cole, August. 2009. “Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones,” The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html
• Haddal, Chad C., and Gertler, Jeremiah. 2010. Homeland Security: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Border Surveillance (RS21698). July 8, 2010. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS21698.pdf
• Harris, Glenn. 2011. “Southampton Engineers fly the World’s first ‘Printed’ Aircraft,” University of Southhampton, July 28, 2011: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uos-sef072811.php
• Hill, Kashmir. 2011. “The Future of Drones in America,” Forbes, December 13, 2011: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/12/13/the-future-of-drones-in-america
• Hill, Kashmir. 2012a. “Congress Welcomes the Drones,” Forbes, February 7, 2012: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/07/congress-welcomes-the-drones
• Hill, Kashmir. 2012b. “Ten Fun Facts About Drones,” Forbes, February 9, 2012: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/09/10-fun-facts-about-drones
• IHS Jane’s. 2012. UAVs: Congress Lays Down the Law, April 4, 2012: http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?ID=1065966504
• Kahn, Carrie. 2011. “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Drone!” All Things Considered, NPR Website, March 14, 2011: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134533552/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-drone
• Klotz, Irene. “The Skies Open Up for Drones,” Discovery News, February 23, 2012: http://news.discovery.com/tech/drones-sky-122302.html
• Kobler, Jason. 2012. “First Man Arrested With Drone Evidence Vows to Fight Case,” US News, April 9, 2012: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/04/09/first-man-arrested-with-drone-evidence-vows-to-fight-case
• Korody, Patrick. 2004. Satellite Surveillance Within U.S. Borders. 65 Ohio St. L. J. 1627
• Lacher, Andrew et al. 2010. “Airspace Integration Alternatives for Unmanned Aircraft,” Presentation at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Asia-Pacific 2010. February 1 2010. Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. Case #10-0090. McClean, VA: The MITRE Corporation. http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/2010/10_0090/10_0090.pdf
• Lenssen, Phillipp. 2010. “Micro Drones for Google?” Google Blogoscoped, August 7, 2010: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-08-07-n43.html; See also von Sebastian, Matthes and Mertens, Bernd. 2010. Zivile Drohnen fur Google, Wirtschafts Woche, July 8, 2010: http://www.wiwo.de/technologie/luftueberwachung-zivile-drohnen-fuer-google/5156046.html  and Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/08/2054200/Google-Testing-an-Airborne-Camera-Drone
• Lynch, Jennifer. 2012. “Are Drones Watching You?” Electronic Frontier Foundation Website, January 10, 2012: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/drones-are-watching-you
• Maple, Derrick. 2012. “Briefing: Global UAV Market Forecasts to 2020,” HIS Jane’s DS Forecast, February 8, 2012: http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?ID=1065932275&channel=defence
• Marchant, Gary E., et al. 2011. International Governance of Autonomous Military Robots.  12 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 272.
• Marks, Paul. 2012. “Command robot Panes With A Wave Of Your Arms,” NewScientist, March 15, 2012: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21592-command-robot-planes-with-a-wave-of-your-arms.html
• McBride, Paul. 2009. Comment: Beyond Orwell: The Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Domestic Surveillance Operations. 97 J. Air L. & Com. 627.
• McNeal, Greg. 2012. “A Primer on Domestic Drones: Legal, Policy, and Privacy Implications,” Forbes, April 10, 2012: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2012/04/10/a-primer-on-domestic-drones-and-privacy-implications
• Meier, Patrick. 2008. “UN World Food Program to Use UAVs,” iRevolution Blog, April 9, 2008: http://irevolution.net/2008/04/09/un-world-food-program-to-use-uavs
• Meier, Patrick. 2009. “What Does a Wasp Have to Do With Civil Resistance? Everything.” iRevolution Blog, July 28, 2009: http://irevolution.net/2009/07/28/what-does-a-wasp-have-to-do-with-civil-resistance-everything
• Meier, Patrick. 2012. “Drones for Human Rights: Brilliant or Foolish?” iRevolution Blog, February 10, 2012: http://irevolution.net/2012/02/10/drones-for-human-rights
• Meier, Patrick. 2012. “The Use of Drones for Nonviolent Civil Resistance,” iRevolution Blog, February 18, 2012: http://irevolution.net/2012/02/18/drones-for-civil-resistance/
• Morely, Jefferson. 2012. “The Drones are coming – To America,” Salon.com, April 10, 2012: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/the_drones_are_coming_to_america/singleton
• MSNBC.Com Staff. 2012. “Pilots Worry About Safety of Allowing Domestic Drones in US Skies,” MSNBC.Com, February 7, 2012: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10344710-pilots-worry-about-safety-of-allowing-domestic-drones-in-us-skies
• Nas, Michael. 2006. “Pilots by Proxy: Legal Issues Raised by the Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” Australia: Unmanned Aircraft Technology Applications Research [WG-27 Insurance, Risk and Compliance Management]: http://www.uatar.com/Legal%20Paper%20on%20UAVs.pdf
• Parasuraman, Raja, Cosenzo, Keryl A., and De Visser, Ewart. 2009. Adaptive Automation for Human Supervision of Multiple Uninhabited Vehicles: Effects of Change Detection, Situation Awareness, and Mental Workload. Military Pschology 21(2): 270-297 (DOI 10.1080/08995600902768800)
• Peterson, Mark Edward. 2005. “The UAV and the Current and Future Regulatory Construct for Integration Into the National Airspace System (Masters of Laws Thesis),” August 10, 2005. Montreal, Quebec: Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA437392
• Schumacher-Matos, Edward. 2012. “Mailbox: Domestic Drones and Personal Privacy Revisited,” NPR Ombudsman, NPR Website, April 8, 2012: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2012/01/05/144745282/mailbox-domestic-drones-and-personal-privacy-revisited?ft=1&f=17370252
• Sengupta, Somni. 2012. “Drones May Set Off a Flurry of Lawsuits,” Bits Blog, New York Times, February 20, 1212: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/drones-may-set-off-a-flurry-of-lawsuits/?scp=1&sq=drones&st=cse
• Shachtman, Noah. 2011. “Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet,” Wired Magazine, October 7, 20111.
• Shactman, Noah. 2011. “Military ‘Not Quite sure’ How Drone Cockpits Got Infected,” Wired Magazine, October 19, 2011: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/military-not-quite-sure-how-drone-cockpits-got-infected
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 2010. “The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) Into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements,” Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, September, 12, 2010 (S. Hrg. 111-1067, Transcript): http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2010_hr/uas.html
• Sniderman, Andrew Stobo and Hanis, Mark. 2012. “Drones for Human Rights,” The Opinion Pages, The New York Times, January 30, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/drones-for-human-rights.html?_r=1
• Solomon, Daniel. 2012. “Humanitarian Drones and the Limits of Surveillance,” Securing Rights Blog, January 31, 2012: http://securingrights.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/humanitarian-drones-and-the-limits-of-surveillance/
• Stanley, Jay and Crump, Catherine. 2011. Protecting Privacy from Aerial Surveillance: Recommendations for Government Use of Drone Aircraft. December 2011. New York: ACLU. http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/report-protecting-privacy-aerial-surveillance-recommendations-government-use
• Rapp, Geoffrey Christopher. 2009. “Unmanned Aerial Exposure: Civil Liability Concerns Arising from Domestic Law Enforcement and Employment of Unmanned Aerial Systems,” in Complying and Flying: Legal and Technical Issues Relating to the Operation of Unmanned Aerial Systems. 85 N. Dak. L. Rev. 623
• Ravich, Timothy M. 2009. “The Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Into the National Airspace,” in Complying and Flying: Legal and Technical Issues Relating to the Operation of Unmanned Aerial Systems. 85 N. Dak. L. Rev. 597
• Teal Group Corporation. 2011. “Teal Group Predicts Worldwide UAV Market Will Total Just over $94 Billion,” Teal Group Website, March 1, 2011: http://tealgroup.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:teal-group-predicts-worldwide-uav-market-will-total-just-over-94-billion-&catid=3&Itemid=16
• Timm, Trevor. 2011. “Drones: A Deeply Unsettling Future,” Aljazeera, December 7, 2011. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/12/201112774824829807.html
• V., N. 2012. “Difference Engine: Unblinking Eye in the Sky,” Babbage Blog, The Economist, January 13, 2012: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/01/civilian-drones
• Vacek, Joseph J. 2009.  “Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching – Or Will He? Constitutional, Regulatory, and Operational Issues Surrounding The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Law Enforcement,” in Complying and Flying: Legal and Technical Issues Relating to the Operation of Unmanned Aerial Systems. 85 N. Dak. L. Rev. 673
• Vijayan, Jaikumar. 2012. “Congress Urged to Secure Drone Law,” Computerworld, March 29, 2012: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225650/Congress_urged_to_secure_drone_law
• Villasenor, John. 2011a. “The Drone Threat to National Security,” Scientific American, November 11, 2011: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-drone-threat-to-national-security
• Villasenor, John. 2011b. “The Drone Threat to Privacy,” Scientific American, November 14, 2011: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-drone-threat-to-privacy
• Villasenor, John. 2011c. “Armchair Kamikaze: What the Latest Generation of Small Armed Drones Means for Antiterrorism,” Brookings Institute, October 6, 2011: http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/1006_switchblade_drones_villasenor.aspx
• Villasenor, John. 2012a. “High-Altitude Surveillance Drones: Coming to a Sky Near You,” Scientific American Blogs, February 24, 2012: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/24/high-altitude-surveillance-drones-coming-to-a-sky-near-you
• Villasenor, John. 2012b. “The Drone Threat – in the US,” Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, March 27, 2012: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-villasenor-license-domestic-drones-20120327,0,2115251.story
• Uberti, David. 2012. “Rise of the Machines: Domestic Drones Take Off,” Medill National Security Zone, April 3, 2012: http://nationalsecurityzone.org/site/rise-of-the-machines-domestic-drones-take-off
• Ungerleider, Neal. 2011. “New Unmanned Drone Fits in the Palm of a Hand,” Scientific American and Fast Company, November 14, 2011: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-unmanned-drone-fits-in-the-palm-2011-11
• Waterman, Shaun. 2012a. “Drones over US get OK by Congress,” The Washington Times, February 7, 2012: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
• Watson, Paul Joseph. 2012. “DHS to Launch Insurgent-Tracking Drones Inside America,” Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, February 9, 2012: http://www.infowars.com/dhs-to-launch-insurgent-tracking-drones-inside-america
• Weibel, Roland E. and Hansman, R. John. 2005. “Safety Considerations for Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace System.” Report No. ICAT-2005-1. March 2005. Cambridge, MA: MIT International Center for Air Transportation, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT. http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/34912/Weibel%20-%20ICAT%20Report%20-%20UAV%20Safety.pdf
• Weintraub, Seth. 2010. “Google Buys Flying Drones,” CNN Money, August 9, 2010: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/09/google-buys-flying-drones
• Wingfield, Nick. 2012. Drones Set Sights on U.S. Skies. Technology, New York Times, February 17, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/technology/drones-with-an-eye-on-the-public-cleared-to-fly.html
• Wood, Sylvia. 2011. “Domestic Drones: Coming Soon Over a Home Near You?” MSCNB.Com, December 15, 2011: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9476623-domestic-drones-coming-soon-over-a-home-near-you
• Yochim, Jaysen A. 2010. The Vulnerabilities of Unmanned Aircraft System Common Data Links to Electronic Attack (Master’s Thesis). Fort Leavenworth, KA: US Army Command and General Staff College. http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/uas-vuln.pdf
• Zenko, Micah. 2012. “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Drones,” Foreign Policy, March/April 2012: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/10_things_you_didnt_know_about_drones

DIY DRONE MOVEMENT

• DIY Drones: http://diydrones.com
• “Drones coming to a sky near you as interest surges”, The Washington Times, February 7, 2012, page 2: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/1/drones-coming-to-a-sky-near-you-as-interest-surges/?page=2
• Robots Podcast: How to Build Your Own UAV for 300 USD (DIY Drones)

• Open Aerial Map: http://www.openaerialmap.org/Main_Page