Northern Border UAV Surveillance Stymied by Military Airspace Demands

Six Predator UAVs are sitting in their shipping crates in Grand Forks, N.D., due to a dispute between military authorities and the FAA. The military is demanding a 31-by-45-mi. restricted training area for UAV operations and the FAA won’t go beyond a waiver agreement similar to that on the Southern...

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