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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…

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…

XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

Inside Unmanned Systems is proud to serve as an official media partner of XPONENTIAL 2026, the world’s largest autonomous systems…

Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy

There’s been a shift in Washington. Congress just held two hearings focused on robotics and autonomous systems in just over…

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. Marine Corps Sgt. Jordan Chaussepied, a small unmanned aircraft system operator with the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team, flies a drone with a member from the House of Armed Services Committee, during a drone demonstration at Weapons Training Battalion on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 6, 2025. MCADT conducted a range demonstration for members of the HASC highlighting their capabilities and potential applications on the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anthony C. Ramsey Jr.)

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,…

A Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system flies toward a simulated target during a kinetic first-person view drone range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2025. The range was conducted to validate a scalable, repeatable methodology for enabling FPV strike operations and used as a reference to support cost-effective training and eventual kinetic employment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zachariah Ferraro)

Gauntlet Phase 1: America’s New Champions of FPV Warfare

From Garage Startups to Pentagon Champions: Meet the Eleven Companies Remaking American FPV Warfare Phase 1 of the Pentagon’s Drone…

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…

Precision, Performance, and Integration: The ADIS16576 Sets a New Standard for MEMS IMUs

In the fast-moving world of autonomous systems and advanced navigation platforms, precision and reliability are paramount. From unmanned aerial vehicles…

OxTS Launches WayFinder and LiDAR Boost for GNSS-denied Localization

OxTS has launched WayFinder, a complete localisation solution for any environment, even GNSS-denied spaces. Functioning out of the box with…

SBG Systems Releases New Ellipse Upgrade

SBG Systems has announced the New Ellipse upgrade for their Ellipse product line. For both the AHRS or INS version,…

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…