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Dan Gettinger

Dan Gettinger is the director of publications and communications at the Vertical Flight Society and a researcher specializing in uncrewed systems. He is the author of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Current Types, Ordnance and Operations and The Drone Databook” and a founder of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.