 University students researching unmanned aerial vehicles visited the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland to discuss their recent findings. Let's leverage the VTOL capabilities of your typical quadcopter with the fixed-wing flight performance transit time efficient. The Army reached out to the students to promote collaboration, officials said. Well today we invited the University of Maryland and Penn State University to come and present researchers and students to present on their ongoing efforts on micro-air vehicles. The students put their UAVs on display during the presentation and answered many technical questions about processors, control strategies and aerodynamics. So this is an opportunity for ARL researchers and the students at the local universities to present each other's research and network and learn a little bit about what each other are doing. The students came to the attention of Army researchers because they had participated in a May 2017 competition at the American Helicopter Society Annual Forum at Fort Worth, Texas. The students were challenged to design, build and fly micro-air vehicle to autonomously navigate a course, identify targets and safely avoid obstacles and return back. The lab is also sponsoring two of the students who are a summer internship program at the Vehicle Technology Directorate. And so they have extensive knowledge of their ongoing effort. So it was a good opportunity for the interns themselves to have an opportunity to present in a formal professional setting and also to get the experience of meeting new researchers that they're not familiar with but also learn about what these researchers are doing here at ARL. Abros said he hoped the students also left with a better idea of what the Army is researching. We are always looking for opportunities similar to this in micro-air vehicles, sensors, vehicle technology, all the disciplines that ARL work on related to helicopters and vertical lift platforms. Abros' involvement in advancing the local Aberdeen chapter of the American Helicopter Society guides his engagement with outside researchers following the same path, he said. It's always good to have opportunities to make each other aware of their ongoing research efforts, to also set up collaboration opportunities with ARL through the Open Campus Open House Initiative. For ARL TV, I'm David McNally.