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"We see a huge potential market," said Ben Gielow of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a drone maker trade group.
"For every two paper clips in weight we lose, we get another kilometer in range," said Steve Sliwa, president of a drone maker called the Insitu Group.
Chris Anderson, chief executive of drone maker 3D Robotics, said the attraction of drones was simple: "You want a flying phone, but until we invent anti-gravity, drones are basically it".
Drone maker DJI welcomed the change.
Pirker and the others at the conference belong to a new breed of drone maker.
Earlier this year, Facebook bought UK-based drone maker Ascenta for $20m £12mm).
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Boeing and Lockheed Martin, drone makers that were major C.S.I.S. contributors, were also invited to attend the sessions, the emails show.
Drone makers, who until now have sold drones to the United States military for its war efforts overseas, have lobbied to open up the civilian market within the United States.
The new law, part of a broader financing bill for the F.A.A., came after intense lobbying by drone makers and potential customers.
Using the analogy of the personal computer industry, Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, said Airware is "sort of the Windows layer to drones," while actual drone makers are akin to Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others.
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