{"id":33325,"date":"2023-12-05T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=33325"},"modified":"2023-12-05T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:42:43","slug":"state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2023\/12\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\/","title":{"rendered":"State legislative committee talks autonomy and workforce at EERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autonomous systems may someday augment North Dakota\u2019s labor force, industry professionals say<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33321 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of North Dakota&#8217;s Interim Legislative Workforce Committee convene at UND&#8217;s Energy and Environmental Research Center. Adam Kurtz\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UND\u2019s Energy &amp; Environmental Research Center received a visit from North Dakota\u2019s Interim Legislative Workforce Committee on Thursday, for a discussion on the benefits and challenges posed by autonomous systems.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-member committee &#8212; composed of legislators from across the state \u2013 is tasked with studying a variety of issues pertaining to North Dakota\u2019s workforce, including the funding of apprenticeships and training centers, as well as Thursday\u2019s topic of integrating autonomous technology.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Gorecki, CEO of the EERC, said addressing workforce challenges is essential to the future of North Dakota\u2019s energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get to talk to legislators a lot about energy, but I don\u2019t often talk to them about workforce,\u201d he said. \u201cCertainly, you can see within the industry that workforce is one of our biggest challenges. Autonomous systems and AI have an opportunity to help us meet those challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cortnee Jensen, executive director of strategic partnerships at UND, said North Dakota\u2019s low unemployment rate \u2013 the second lowest in the nation at 1.9%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics \u2013 and rapid economic growth pose challenges for employers seeking to fill positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, everyone can agree that our biggest problem in the state is workforce, and access to it,\u201d she said. \u201cOur unemployment rate is under 2%, which is unbelievable. In the first quarter of 2023, most of the country had an average economic growth rate of about 2%. North Dakota had 12.4% growth. The work that\u2019s being done by our universities, industries and Legislature is incredible, but it means we have to continue the conversation. A lot of that conversation comes back to how to use autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Askelson, associate vice president for research \u2013 national security, said that autonomous systems have the capacity to augment human decision making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, almost every autonomous system is a human and machine team,\u201d he said. \u201cThe key element here is understanding how to make the two match. It turns out that machines are really good at top-down deductive reasoning. Humans, however, can be very good at inference and dominate in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A prevailing theme of the committee\u2019s session was the importance of North Dakota\u2019s burgeoning unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sector to the state\u2019s workforce and economy.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Swoyer, president and founder of Grand Sky \u2013 the UAS-focused business and aviation park next to Grand Forks Air Force Base \u2013 said the park\u2019s tenants operate with a mix of autonomy and human input. He added that autonomy has the potential to turn \u201cone person into three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swoyer cited an example from the Air Force called \u201ccollaborative combat aircraft,\u201d which will pair unmanned and manned fighter aircraft, to reduce the risk to the piloted aircraft during combat. The program will be tested at Grand Sky beginning in January.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33322\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7301-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Swoyer, president and founder of Grand Sky, apprises legislators of developments pertaining to North Dakota&#8217;s UAS sector. Joe Banish\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the statewide network tasked with enabling Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight flights for drone operators, Vantis is a vital component of the state\u2019s UAS workforce. Erin Roesler, director of operations for Vantis and the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, said that although BVLOS is a major breakthrough for the industry, more can be done to increase its widespread application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolicy and regulation are some of the biggest barriers, but there are also more barriers such as shared infrastructure,\u201d she said. \u201cUAS is really the only part of the transportation sector that does not yet have shared infrastructure. What UAS needs is a different type of infrastructure. That has really been prohibiting the use and expansion of UAS in the national airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Matus, director of ATC digital aviation solutions with Thales USA \u2013 a company specializing in air traffic control that has partnered with Vantis\u2019 BVLOS mission \u2013 said it is essential for industry leaders to tout the myriad employment opportunities such technology offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re essentially creating an entire economy around the UAS sector,\u201d he said. &#8220;It\u2019s not just the vehicles themselves or the infrastructure. It\u2019s electrification, training, services and trying to work with our communities to imagine, \u2018how do we keep our kids here? How do we show that there are opportunities here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Adams, associate dean of national security and professor in the College of Engineering and Mines, said UAS is vital to several research initiatives on campus. Among them is the transportation technology research initiative, a partnership between UND and the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33323\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7304-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Adams, associate dean of national security and professor in the College of Engineering and Mines, discusses the importance of UAS to campus research initiatives. Joe Banish\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The initiative uses UAS to conduct remote bridge and pavement inspections across the state, and conducts research into the feasibility of building infrastructure such as box culverts through 3-D printing.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, UND&#8217;s Research Institute for Autonomous Systems (RIAS) continues to devise the safest and most efficient methods to operate UAS. By working on projects such as collision avoidance and emergency response, the RIAS is actively mitigating risks involved with UAS flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be able to use these drones as effectively as we can, without causing damage or harm to the public or infrastructure,&#8221; Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous systems may someday augment North Dakota\u2019s labor force, industry professionals say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":33321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,149],"class_list":["post-33325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-und","tag-engineering","tag-rias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State legislative committee talks autonomy and workforce at EERC - UND Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Autonomous systems, namely UAS, are critical to the future of North Dakota&#039;s workforce.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2023\/12\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State legislative committee talks autonomy and workforce at EERC - UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Autonomous systems, namely UAS, are critical to the future of North Dakota&#039;s workforce.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2023\/12\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-05T22:42:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/12\/IMG_7279-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joe Banish\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joe Banish\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Joe Banish\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bc12a86b51128fc0b4004e5891852d4\"},\"headline\":\"State legislative committee talks autonomy and workforce at EERC\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-05T22:42:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":943,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/state-legislative-committee-talks-autonomy-and-workforce-at-eerc\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/7\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/IMG_7279-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Engineering &amp; 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