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Six Massachusetts Municipal Airports Receiving More than $3.2 Million in Federal Funding to Enhance Safety and Efficiency  

3/25/2024 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

FAA announces Round 3 grants for Fiscal Year 2024 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding.

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MassDOT Aeronautics Applies for $1 Million Federal Highway Administration AID Grant  

2/14/2024 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Second phase of UAS/drone-based digital system aims to help optimize MassDOT highway processes

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Massachusetts Department of Transportation Secures Large-Scale Waiver from Feds Allowing Drones to Fly “Beyond Visual Line of Sight”  

12/08/2023 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

MassDOT Aeronautics Can Now Fly Drones Outside Remote Operators’ Fields of Vision, Reaching the Entire State Rail Network

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MassDOT Applies for $5.5 Million Total In Fiscal Year 2023 SMART Grant Funding 

10/23/2023 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant Program Focuses on Smart Technologies to Improve Transportation Efficiency and Safety

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MassDOT Aeronautics Division Releases Request for Responses for New Smart Grid at Cape Cod Gateway Airport 

8/01/2023 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Smart microgrid seeks to help generate and distribute clean, reliable power at the airport and in the area

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Massachusetts Awarded $4 Million in U.S. Department of Transportation Strengthening, Mobility, and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants  

4/05/2023 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Funding Awards support MassDOT’s proposed clean energy grid and climate change-related initiatives. City of Brockton and MetroWest Regional Transit Authority also awarded federal SMART grant funding.

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MassDOT Aeronautics Administrator Jeffrey DeCarlo Named Chair of World Economic Forum’s Advanced and Urban Aerial Mobility Cities and Regions Coalition 

7/12/2022 Massachusetts Department of Transportation

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MassDOT Aeronautics Division Selected by NASA for an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) 

5/14/2021 Aeronautics Division