Maryland woman charged with illegal export of miniature aircraft controls to China

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland woman was charged Friday with exporting miniature controls for small unmanned aircraft to China.The government says the controls are the world's smallest and involve a technology that cannot be shared with China because of national security concerns. The devices can be used to fly small military reconnaissance planes.Yaming Nina Qi Hanson of Silver Spring, Md., is accused of taking the controls to China last August without a required export license. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine (emphasis mine -J).Qi Hanson and her husband, Harold Hanson, arranged over e-mail to buy the controls from a Canadian company, MicroPilot of Manitoba, according to the criminal complaint. Company officials told the couple they could ship the controls to the United States but the couple would have to get an export permit to send the controls to another country.

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Students representing 16 colleges and universities gathered at Webster Field last week for the sixth annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International unmanned aerial systems competition.Joe Brannan, the competition’s director, said this year’s teams were among the best he’s seen since the event began in 2003.‘‘Both of the first two top finishing teams” in this year’s event, Brannan said, ‘‘were significantly better than I’ve ever seen” in past events.NAVAIR’s Program Executive Office-Weapons and AUVSI’s local Seafarers chapter co-host the annual competition.‘‘Northrop Grumman is our biggest supporter, with $10,000,” said Brannan, ‘‘with Boeing, Lockheed, The Patuxent Partnership and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab each contributing $5,000.” More than a dozen other defense contractors also support the annual competition financially. This year’s competing teams were awarded a total of $44,850 in prize money.The college competitors must design and build an unmanned aerial vehicle that can be programmed to fly autonomously for a specified time over a specified area and, while airborne, locate and photograph targets on the ground below. When the aircraft lands, the digital information it captured during the flight is downloaded and analyzed.