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Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas

Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site for Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard the company says will help expand…

Kongsberg Maritime’s Eco-Autonomy Evolution

In Norway, chemical company Yara had a problem: its pollution-conscious government told it to stop trucking fertilizer and other cargos thousands…

New JIATF 401 Handbook Reframes Counter-Drone Defense Around Five First Principles

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has published a 90-page handbook intended to give warfighters, federal agencies and local law enforcement…

19 Companies Out of 49 Contenders Qualify For Drone Dominance Gauntlet 2 Trial

The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program has taken another step forward. Aimed at identifying and nurturing a championship stable…

Amprius silicon anode cells—cylindrical and pouch formats—power a range of aircraft from delivery drones and military UAS to air taxis. Photo courtesy of Amprius Technologies.

Amprius Technologies Scales Silicon Anode Batteries for Defense Drone Market

The company’s silicon anode cells deliver twice the flight time of standard lithium-ion. The race to build a compliant domestic…

Thales to Acquire Exail in €3.9 Billion Deal

Thales has signed a binding agreement to acquire the Gorgé family’s 35.51% stake in French maritime robotics and navigation firm…

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment mount the Wingman and Pitbull portable counter-unmanned aerial system devices to their modular tactical vests during Project Flytrap at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany, June 7, 2025. The Wingman is a vest-mountable device capable of detecting nearby UAS threats, which then notifies the end-user to activate the Pitbull radio frequency jammer when a drone is in range. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elijah Magaña)

Pentagon Consolidates Unmanned Systems Under New Portfolio Manager

The Department of Defense has established a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for unmanned offensive and defensive systems, designated DRPM-UxS,…

Ondas to Acquire DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 Million, Forming Ondas Sentinel Autonomous Defense Division

Deal unites World View’s stratospheric sensing with DZYNE’s long-endurance ISR, counter-UAS and precision-effects portfolio, and pushes Ondas’ 2026 revenue target…

AeroVironment Locks In $500 Million Domestic Shield IDIQ, Books First $80.5 Million Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense

Two same-day contract actions tie AV’s counter-UAS portfolio directly to the Pentagon’s expanding homeland counter-drone posture, with Titan systems already…

ProximaVision Air Ready™ Brings Tethered Aerial ISR from the Super Bowl to the Tactical Edge

The company built its system for live broadcast reliability. What it is selling to defense users is something different: a…

The FIFA World Cup: A Catalyst for C-UAS Investment, But ‘Not the Whole Story’

Government funding, new legislation and the drone threat moving from the battlefield into our communities are all accelerating growth in…

Teledyne’s Black Recon Puts a Grown-Up Black Hornet on Armored Vehicles

Teledyne FLIR unveiled a new vehicle-borne multi-role UAS called Black Recon at this June’s Eurosatory arms expo—one evolved from its…

Drones and drone controllers sit on a table as part of the counter-UAS field day demonstration at the 205th Regional Training Institute’s training bay at the Yakima Training Center, Wash., June 2, 2026. (U.S. National Guard photo by Joseph Siemandel)

JIATF-401 Partners with FBI to Expand C-UAS Training for Law Enforcement

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is embedding instructors at the FBI’s National Counter-UAS Training Center to support the Counter-UAS Operator…

South Korea to Acquire 20,000 Low-Cost Systems and Fast-Track K-Lucas Loitering Munition

South Korea’s Defense Ministry announced a broad overhaul of its uncrewed warfare strategy on June 26, with Defense Minister Ahn…

Thales-led Team Develops Trustworthy PNT for Autonomous Drones

Thales Alenia Space France, working with UPT, ABZero and DroneVolt under the European Space Agency (ESA) NAVISP program, has completed…

Times Microwave’s Levitate cable assemblies are designed for Group 1 through Group 5 unmanned aircraft, targeting the performance gap between commodity commercial coax and full MilTech® qualification. Photo courtesy of Times Microwave.

Levitate and the New Math of Military Drone Production

Times Microwave’s Levitate family is built for the middle market in military UAS: lighter than legacy aerospace practice, stronger than…

Farsighted: SiLC’s Eyeonic Vista Perimeter Detector

Nefarious actors wield increasingly sophisticated UAS that move quickly, fly low and blend into complex backgrounds and infrastructure. SiLC Technologies…

Teledyne FLIR Upgrades Rogue 1 Block 2 with Extended Range, Larger Warhead

Teledyne FLIR has unveiled an improved Block 2 variant of its Rogue 1 quadcopter enabling the loitering munition to strike…

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…

Hitec Commercial Solutions Announces Next-Gen Servo for Small UAS

Hitec Commercial Solutions is excited to announce the next generation in brushless drone servo technology: our high-performance BD10BL. Designed specifically…

DroneDash and GEODNET Launch GEODASH Aerosystems with Heavy-Lift Agricultural Spraying Drone

DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to bring a new class of autonomous agricultural spraying drone to…

ePropelled Expands Hercules Starter Generator Line for Multi-Domain Hybrid Missions

ePropelled has announced a significant 2026 expansion of its Hercules starter generator product line, extending the platform’s reach across uncrewed…

RIEGL Still Rising at InterGEO 2025

RIEGL’s newly released VQ-1060 marks a significant evolution in airborne LiDAR for corridor mapping. Unveiled at InterGEO 2025 in Frankfurt,…

Teledyne Optech Highlights Advanced LiDAR and Marine Mapping Systems at INTERGEO 2025

Teledyne Optech introduced an expanded lineup of LiDAR, imaging, and marine-mapping technologies at INTERGEO 2025, underscoring the company’s focus on…

RIEGL Debuts UAV-Optimized “Ultimate LiDAR” at INTERGEO 2025

New airborne and bathymetric sensors extend range, precision, and real-time georeferencing for drone-based mapping and inspection. At INTERGEO 2025, RIEGL…

Phase One Unveils Drone-Ready Imaging Stack at INTERGEO 2025

At INTERGEO 2025, Phase One rolled out a suite of new innovations explicitly aimed at aerial mapping and inspection applications. The upgrades,…

GeoCue Announces New, NDAA-Compliant TrueView 3D LiDAR Sensor at INTERGEO 2025

GeoCue has introduced its TrueView 641, a new NDAA-compliant airborne LiDAR sensor, at INTERGEO 2025. The announcement positions the 641 as a more…

New Trimble Software Enhances Mobile Mapping Workflows

Trimble has announced its next-generation post-processing software, Trimble Applanix POSPac Complete. The solution combines Trimble’s cutting-edge, industry-leading technologies: Trimble ProPoint®…

uAvionix Releases Trakr: Low-Altitude Airspace Awareness Extension to FlightLine Platform

uAvionix today announced the launch of Trakr, a new suite of hardware and services that extends its FlightLine airspace surveillance platform to…

uAvionix Launches skyAlert Wearable Aircraft Alerting Device for UAS Operators and Visual Observers

uAvionix, committed to radically innovating to keep the skies safe for all airspace users, today announced the release of skyAlert, a…

Five Good Questions: Dan Magy, Firestorm Labs

Dan Magy is the CEO of Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on rapidly configurable unmanned systems and forward-deployed…

Swarm Aero Announces Advanced Manufacturing Center

Swarm Aero, a developer of large uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, announced the opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Center from…

Saronic Opens Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) Production Facility in San Diego

Saronic announced the official opening of its 80,000+ square-foot facility in downtown San Diego. The event was attended San Diego…

Ascent AeroSystems Elevates Paul Fermo to President

Ascent AeroSystems, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a Robinson Helicopter Company, has named Paul…

Low-Altitude, High Stakes: America’s Drone Policy Gap

Just before the holidays, the phones started ringing. First a few, then dozens of calls from lawmakers, reporters and concerned…

Industry View: Failure of Remote ID in NJ Might Have Cost Us Years

Editor’s Note: As attention increases regarding aircraft activity in the eastern U.S., Inside Unmanned Systems will be providing substantive context…

Industry View: Separating Fact from Frenzy

Editor’s Note: As attention increases regarding aircraft activity in the eastern U.S., Inside Unmanned Systems will be providing substantive context…

Industry View: A Responsible Look at Drones Overhead

Editor’s Note: As attention increases regarding aircraft activity in the eastern U.S., Inside Unmanned Systems will be providing substantive context…

SightLine Applications Appoints Mark Boccella as Vice President of Sales

SightLine Applications, LLC (“SightLine”), an Artemis company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Boccella as its new Vice…

Five Good Questions: Don DeRosa, Eonix

Don DeRosa, CEO of Eonix, is an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the nanotechnology and energy storage industry….

Accelerating AAM: Blueprint for Movement Over Motion

Policy and regulatory advances are being achieved through effective collaboration between industry and government stakeholders at national, regional and local…

Five Good Questions: Aaron Nathan, Point One Navigation

Aaron Nathan is the founder and CEO of Point One Navigation, an entrepreneur and technical leader with over a decade of…

Topcon Positioning Systems announces retirement plan of Ray O’Connor, appointment of Ivan Di Federico as new president and CEO

Topcon Positioning Systems has announced that Ray O’Connor, president and chief executive officer, will retire in September 2025 after over…

Air Force Col. (Ret.) Ted Davis Joins Auterion Government Solutions as President and General Manager

Auterion Government Solutions, a company building software to support mobile robotics and drone operating systems, has announced Air Force Col….

5 Good Questions: Miguel Ángel de Frutos Carro, UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía

Miguel Ángel de Frutos Carro is Director and CTO at UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía, the Spanish company specialized in designing control…