If there was one central theme to Tuesday’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy workshop on drones and the future of aviation it can best be characterized by a single question: How do we work as fast as possible to expand capacity for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) while at the same time staying safe?

All of the workshop’s lightning talks, panels and intro speeches touched on this question to some extent. And this in itself showed the broad range of stakeholders in the question. There were public servants from the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and more in the room, joined by academics, private-sector leaders and other interest groups.

And all, for one reason or another, said, Yeah, we’d like to use more drones.

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