Unmanned, Autonomy, and Counter-UAS on the Tampa Agenda: What to Watch at SOF Week 2026
Live demonstrations along the Riverwalk, an expanded outdoor program, and a session track built around autonomy and interoperability put unmanned ...
DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range
While America's drone industry has fixated on first-person view quadcopters like those swarming Ukrainian battlefields, DZYNE Technologies is bucking the ...
SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test
USSOCOM's annual gathering convenes May 18–21 at the Tampa Convention Center, with a program built around the affordable-mass, attritable-systems, and ...
Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip
How Hyfix’s H1 brings the autonomy stack into a single architecture—making autonomous systems more trusted, more scalable, and better suited ...
Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet
Shield AI and Taiwan-based Thunder Tiger Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software ...
Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX
Trimble has released a smart antenna enclosure option for its PX-1 RTX positioning solution, packaging centimeter-level GNSS-inertial hardware with an ...
Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace
Matthew Kling is VP and General Manager of AI Systems at MatrixSpace, leading development of the AiCloud and AiEdge platforms. He ...
JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has selected five military installations to host a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program authorized under the ...
Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems
The U.S. Army has selected three additional vendor solutions for its company-level Small Unmanned Aircraft System portfolio, expanding the program ...
Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot
How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones A first-person view small unmanned aircraft ...
Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire
Four years of war have produced one of the most dynamic defense technology ecosystems in the world. Now Ukraine is ...
FAA Releases Section 2209 NPRM, Two-Tier Framework for Drone Restrictions Around Critical Infrastructure
The Federal Aviation Administration on May 6 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would, nearly a decade after Congress ...
Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations
Major wireless industry groups and technology companies filed initial comments with the FCC this week calling for expanded licensed spectrum ...
U.S., U.K. Forces Integrate Drones, Counter-UAS, and UGVs in Lithuania Exercise
U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and paratroopers from the U.K. Parachute Regiment conducted the force-on-force phase of ...
Gauntlet Phase II: Tougher, Differentiated Missions
Phase II of the Army's Drone Dominance Gauntlet raises the stakes — longer range, tighter urban missions, continuous electronic warfare, ...
