Dan Gettinger
Director of Publications and Communications, Vertical Flight Society
twitter: @gettdan
email: dgettinger [at] vtol [dot] org
phone: (845) 332-6308
Director of Publications and Communications, Vertical Flight Society
twitter: @gettdan
email: dgettinger [at] vtol [dot] org
phone: (845) 332-6308
drones
Dan Gettinger is the Director of Publications and Communications at the Vertical Flight Society and an independent consultant. Dan's research focuses on drone proliferation, emerging aerospace technologies, and defense spending. He is the co-founder and former co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. There, he led a team that examined and reported on the complex opportunities and challenges presented by unmanned systems in both the military and civilian sphere. He is author and co-author of multiple reports and books, including Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Current Types, Ordnance and Operations and "The Drone Databook." Dan is regularly quoted in major media outlets. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Dan Gettinger is the Director of Publications and Communications at the Vertical Flight Society and an independent consultant. Dan's research focuses on drone proliferation, emerging aerospace technologies, and defense spending. He is the co-founder and former co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. There, he led a team that examined and reported on the complex opportunities and challenges presented by unmanned systems in both the military and civilian sphere. He is author and co-author of multiple reports and books, including Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Current Types, Ordnance and Operations and "The Drone Databook." Dan is regularly quoted in major media outlets. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Recent Publications:
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- "One-Way Attack Drones: Loitering Munitions of Past and Present," Vertical Flight Society, May 4, 2023. *
- "Phoenix Ghosts are part drones, part missiles. How does that change combat?," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1, 2022.
- "Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles | Current Types, Ordnance and Operations," Harpia Publishing, Oct 27, 2021.
- "Calls for Police Reform Are Getting Louder—Here Is How to Do It," Foreign Policy, June 22, 2020.*
- "Drone Databook Update: March 2020," Center for the Study of the Drone, March 30, 2020.
- "The Soleimani killing and 5 things to know about drones in Iraq," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 7, 2020.
- "Turkey’s military drones: an export product that’s disrupting NATO," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 6, 2019.
- "The Drone Databook," Center for the Study of the Drone, September 25, 2019.
- "Study: Drones in the FY 2019 Defense Budget," Center for the Study of the Drone, April 9, 2018.
- "Drone Year in Review: 2017," Center for the Study of the Drone, Jan 3, 2018.
- "Recent Drone Proliferation and What May Lie Ahead," blog post, December 20th, 2017.
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