ICAO has notified UVS International that it would like to continue the partnership established for the organisation of the Global Air Traffic Management Forum, which included ATCA, CANSO, EUROCONTROL, IATA, FAA, Department of Defense (USA), Ministry of Transport (Germany), NATO, and UVS International, for the organisation/conduct of a regional campaign of five seminars/workshops on civil/military cooperation in all ICAO regions from 2011 to 2013.
The Global Air Traffic Management Forum on Civil/Military Cooperation (Oct. ’09) recommended conducting a series of regional events to carry over the message of this Forum. This was reinforced by the 37th ICAO Assembly (October 2010), which asked ICAO to serve as an international forum to play a role in facilitating improved civil/military cooperation and to provide the necessary follow-up activities, that build on the success of the Global Forum with the support of civil/military partners.
In the planning and organisation of these five seminars/workshops, ICAO has received the support of a Civil/Military Informal Working Group (Civ/Mil IWG), which is composed of civil/military experts from most of the partner organisations that assisted ICAO since the inception of the Global Forum and the development of the Civil/Military Cooperation in Air Traffic Management (Cir 330).
The support of UVS International has been solicited by ICAO to plan for the regional campaign of the five seminars/workshops on civil/military cooperation. It is very noteworthy that unmanned aircraft systems are an integral part of ICAO’s civil/military cooperation initiative.