The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC), Virginia Tech, and community college partners are collecting data to help inform future workforce development and education programs to train the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technician workforce and other entry-level positions in the unmanned and autonomous systems (UMAS) sector. This survey should only take about 5-10 minutes to complete.

With support from the National Science Foundation, the project team has already developed some new courses and trained faculty at Virginia’s community colleges through the GeoTEd-UAS project (http://geoted-uas.org/).

We ask that you complete this survey to help define and quantify your organization’s current and projected workforce needs to help inform future projects.

Your participation is voluntary and the responses to the survey will only be reported as a group.  Please feel free to share the survey link with other contacts who have similar workforce needs and wish to provide input.

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* 1. Contact Information (company and email address required)

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* 2. Is your Company/agency:

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* 3. Please select all categories below that describe your organization and the services you provide:

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* 4. Please indicate your primary position/title in your company/organization:

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* 5. Does your company employ UAS and UMAS technicians, operators, pilots and other related positions?

If you Answered 'Yes' to #6, go to question #6. If you answered 'in the future,' go to question 8.

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* 6. Which of the following general categories of positions that include UAS and UMAS-related duties and tasks are currently part of your technician workforce?

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* 7. Briefly describe the general job titles and typical tasks/duties of UAS and UMAS positions your company currently hires.

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* 8. Briefly describe the anticipated job titles and typical tasks/duties of UAS and UMAS positions your company is projecting, or planning,  to hire in the future (if different from #7)

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* 9. Do you project that your organization's demand for employees with skills in UAS and UMAS will increase in the near future (1-5yrs)?

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* 10. Which of the following credentials does your company typically look for in potential employees for positions in UAS and UMAS? (Please select all that apply)

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* 11. Which of the following would your organization be interested in expanding to support recruitment and development of the UAS and UMAS workforce? (Select all that apply)

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* 12. Any additional comments:

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