John Hoeven: “North Dakota’s ranchers need access to reliable, local meat processing facilities to get their products to market.”

That’s because we’ve been working in this sector for 20 years, and it’s why we’ve been selected to work with the DoW, NASA and others to address unmanned aircraft and the security needs arising from this technology.

We drove home the extent of those efforts today and laid the groundwork for future partnerships with the Air Force.

Today’s visit was a great opportunity to have Under Secretary Lohmeier see the amazing technology we’re developing for the Air Force and to build upon the unique set of partnerships we’ve worked to create.

The agreement we secured in 2016 for GrandSKY to jointly use the Grand Forks Air Force Base runway provides a strong foundation for our UAS ecosystem, supporting a set of activities that you cannot find anywhere else in the nation.