{"id":7896,"date":"2011-09-23T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:07:23","slug":"contract-worth-up-to-5m-awarded-to-wsu-for-uav-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/09\/23\/contract-worth-up-to-5m-awarded-to-wsu-for-uav-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract worth up to $5M awarded to WSU for UAV research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>FAIRBORN \u2014 The Air Force has awarded Wright  State University a contract worth up to $5 million over five years for  research that could eventually help a single pilot to manage flights of  multiple unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously, university officials  said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The initial funding  increment of $700,000 will leverage $750,000 in state funding through  Ohio\u2019s technology development-supporting Third Frontier program for  facilities and laboratory equipment, Wright State officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The  work will support 30 research jobs and possibly 10 new jobs within 18  months, along with graduate assistants from the region, said Ryan  Fendley, director of the Wright State Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/dayton-news\/contract-worth-up-to-5m-awarded-to-wsu-for-uav-research-1257689.html\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN \u2014 The Air Force has awarded Wright State University a contract worth up to $5 million over five years for research that could eventually help a single pilot to manage flights of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously, university &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/09\/23\/contract-worth-up-to-5m-awarded-to-wsu-for-uav-research\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7897,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}