Europe is accelerating investment in autonomous sea and air defense systems as seabed sabotage, contested skies, and rising geopolitical tensions…
Peter Gutierrez
Drone Disruptions at Brussels Airport & Military Base Underscore Need for European C-UAS
Unauthorized drone activity prompted a major disruption at Brussels Airport on 4 November. Flights were temporarily suspended after multiple drones…
ICAO Solidly Behind Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established in 1944 to coordinate the…
Autonomous Drones Soon to Fly Over Belgian Prisons
The Belgian prison administration plans to test autonomous drones to enhance security, according to a public procurement contract. Haren Prison,…
Japanese QZSS Authentication for Spoof-Proof Drone Delivery
Strengthening GNSS security in autonomous platforms, Japan’s CORE Corporation, together with ACSL Ltd. and Rakuten Group, recently conducted a demonstration…
Embention Advances Global Reach with Certified Autopilot Systems for UAVs
Alicante-based Embention is a leading provider of high-reliability autopilot systems and components for all kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles. Since…
BAE Systems Takes Military UAS Technology Global
Advanced and various unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are being deployed today, in numbers, in military theaters around the world. Some…
Joby Aviation and Toyota Electric Air Taxi a Step Closer
Joby Aviation continues to make progress towards transforming urban mobility, collaborating with automotive giant Toyota on electric vertical takeoff and…
Hirth Engines Powering UAVs Far and Wide
Hirth Engines makes two-stroke engines for ultralight aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other light aviation applications. Speaking at Xponential…
Amazon Prime Drone Delivery at XPONENTIAL Europe
Amazon is using drones to deliver packages in North America, and the company came to Germany to talk about it….
Belgian Partnership Develops U-Space Capabilities
Unifly, a provider of UTM technology, and Nexova, specialists in advanced cyber security solutions, have designed a secure, unmanned traffic…
Riegl Delivers High-Quality LiDAR to a Wider User Base
Riegl is making the remapping of the world happen faster by bringing its gold-standard UAS LiDAR technology to lower price…
SAMVA eVTOL Flights at EGNOS-enabled Vertiport
The EU-funded SAMVA project recently completed a series of successful electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flights at the…
GSAB Project Demonstrates Assisted Port Operations Solution
The Grimaldi Satellite Autonomous Berthing (GSAB) project, funded by the European Space Agency’s NAVISP program, has developed a system enabling…
EASA Discusses Autonomous Operations in New Artificial Intelligence Paper
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published Issue 2 of its Concept Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
LiDAR Solution Provider Emesent Supporting US-Made Drones
With the inclusion of the American Security Drone Act (ASDA) within the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed into law by President Biden in December, 2023, the US government is now prohibited from using federal funds to purchase drones made in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, or drones that use certain components made in those countries.
Italian Researchers Developing GNSS Test Facility for Urban Drone Navigation
The term ‘urban air mobility’ (UAM) refers to a range of new and emerging services provided by aerial drones in…
