U.S. Defense Priorities Aim to Rehouse and Scale UAS Production
Abe Peck
The Blue UAS Shift: Interview with DCMA Commander
DCMA is accelerating a trusted marketplace for vetted drones and components. On January 1st, the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)…
Shielding Airports from UAS Intrusion
DroneShield and SRI Group offer a model for airport counter-drone protection. Brussels. Copenhagen. Munich. Oslo. Warsaw. All these cities’ major…
CCA Moves Force Multiplication & Affordable Mass Closer to Reality
On August 27th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ (GA-ASI) uncrewed YFQ-42A rose above a runway at an undisclosed California location, marking…
FTUAS Update: Testing Moves Forward
The U.S. Army’s long journey to replace the Iraq-Afghanistan era RQ-7 Shadow with an enhanced ISR solution has reached the…
Next-Gen Autonomy
Multiple developments across multiple domains are blending scalability and high technology to counter peer and near-peer threats. At this September’s…
Commercial UAV Expo: Phoenix’s Continuous LiDAR Improvement
Phoenix LiDAR Systems has pioneered UAV LiDAR integration, real time point cloud visualization software and cloud-based post-processing solutions. The shiny…
Commercial UAV Expo: Fuel Versatility, Extended Range
Harris Aerial’s display at the Commercial UAV expo stressed the advantages of different sources powering the company’s various missions and…
Commercial UAV Expo: NV5 Promotes and Learns
Data acquisition and classification are vital for enabling geospatial solutions. Technology provider NV5 was at C-UAV Expo to promote its…
Commercial UAV Expo: C-Astral Flying by Design
NBA star guard Luka Doncic may be the highest-flying human in Slovenia. But the SQA multirole eVTOL can fly more…
AeroVironment’s Tomahawk Ecosystem Unifies Command and Control
“E Pluribus Unum”—“Out of Many, One”—is the traditional motto of the United States. In the UxS realm, the Tomahawk Ecosystem…
Future Tactical UAS Accelerates
Updating the quest for the Army’s new ISR solution. “Punctuated equilibrium” posits that evolution’s slow path is marked by bursts…
Up Close: AeroVironment CEO Wahid Nawabi
Wahid Nawabi, CEO, AeroVironment, outlines the evolving landscape of autonomous defense, emphasizing the importance of AI, computer vision, and collaborative…
Inside AI: Talking to the Data
At opposite ends of Illinois, two leaders in emerging construction technologies are collaborating to demonstrate how AI, ML and CV can validate construction’s digital-data mandate: Save time, save money, save lives.
Hoisting a Glass – Saluting the Accomplishments of Ingenuity
Two hundred seventeen or so million miles from Earth, Ingenuity rests motionless on the bleak Martian sand. One of the…
Saving the World, One Prize at a Time
Autonomous Contenders Vie for the XPrize Foundation’s $10 Million Rainforest Competition “Measuring spatial density of trees—it’s something I train my…
Defending Prison Airspace
Counter-UAS systems are combatting a vertical security gap when it comes to smuggling contraband into prisons. Prisons are designed to…
