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The 30-Year-Old Procurement Law Behind the Pentagon’s Marketplace Push
A Palantir protest over the Defense Intelligence Agency’s ASTRA solicitation highlights the continuing role of a 1994 federal procurement law…
Small Drones, Big Problems: Inside JIATF 401’s New First-Principles Handbook for Countering Drones
A new 90-page handbook from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 gives warfighters, federal agencies, and local law enforcement a shared framework…
Beyond the Checkbox: What NDAA Compliance Actually Proves
Phoenix LiDAR Systems President Rob Dannenberg’s experience with Blue UAS verification shows why a statutory claim, a vetted product and…
FCC Widens Drone Crackdown: Exemptions Extended, New Import Ban Proposed
The FCC extended key Covered List exemptions to 2028, revoked a drone maker’s authorizations for the first time over false…
Uber and Zipline Partner to Scale Drone Delivery Across the U.S.
Uber Eats will begin offering drone delivery through a new partnership with Zipline, with the companies targeting one million drone…
Powerus Opens UAE Facility to Build Guardian Interceptors Locally
Florida-based Powerus has stood up a UAE factory building its low-cost Guardian interceptor as Gulf states face sustained Iranian drone…
Component Shortages Slow FPV Deliveries From Drone Dominance Gauntlet 1 Winners
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program wanted the eleven companies that made the leaderboard of its Gauntlet 1 competition concluded in…
Avidrone’s Katana Wins DARPA Lift Challenge, Company Plans Commercialized Version
The single-rotor helicopter drone posted the competition’s best payload-to-weight ratio at 3.84 to 1, just short of DARPA’s 4-to-1 goal,…
AEVEX Awarded $41 Million Contract to Deliver One-Way Attack Systems
AEVEX Corp. announced that it has received a $41 million award to support U.S. government customers with delivery of one-way…
Marine Corps Orders Ten More Combat-Proven Anti-Drone Buggies for $19 Million
Vertex Modernization and Sustainment’s Tempest vehicle, armed with radar-guided Hellfire missiles, has already destroyed 21 Shahed drones in Ukraine, giving…
Safe Pro Group Tops $5 Million in 2026 AI-Powered Drone Threat-Detection Orders
Multi-branch adoption by the Army, Air Force and defense primes has pushed the company’s AI edge-compute and imagery-processing contracts to…
Powerus Subsidiary Wins Up to $90 Million Air Force IDIQ for Group 1 Aerial Denial
Tandem Defense’s competitively awarded contract covers Group 1 counter-drone systems, support equipment and training, and runs through mid-2028, arriving as…
Trump Imposes Tariffs Up to 100% on Foreign-Made Drones, Targeting Chinese Supply Chains
New Section 232 tariffs of up to 100% target Chinese-made drones and components, with reduced rates for allies. President Trump…
Northrop Grumman Unveils Raid Hunter, a 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense System for Layered Counter-UAS Protection
Northrop Grumman on Aug. 11 formally introduced Raid Hunter, the production name for its 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense (GBAD) system,…
Army Selects Five Vendors Following Platoon-Level SRR Drone Fly-Off
Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics will move into manufacturing-readiness assessments as the Army looks to refresh short-range…
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: NW Blue
Ezekiel Bierschank is Managing Director of NW Blue, a U.S.-based manufacturer and authorized CubePilot partner specializing in NDAA-compliant sUAS components….
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….
