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DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: UAVForge

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Jim McCormick, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

On Friday, Oct. 7, Jim McCormick, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), joined a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable to discuss UAVForge, a global crowd sourcing competition underway to design, build and manufacture advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) systems. The goal of UAVForge is to facilitate the exchange of ideas for small UAVs among a loosely connected international community of innovators of every kind–scientists, engineers, students, remote-control aircraft hobbyists, citizen scientists and dreamers–united through common interests and inspired by innovation and creative thought.

For more on UAVForge and to see videos check out www.uavforge.net.

Joining us on the call were Sharon Weinberger from Popular Mechanics, Jared Serbu from FED News and Chris Ford from CNN.

Listen to the roundtable audio here.

Read the transcript.

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