A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department’s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit)

Blue UAS Moves Out of DIU to DCMA, New Portal Launches

The new Blue List UAS portal marks the formal handoff of the Pentagon’s trusted drone list from DIU to DCMA,…

Drone Hunter by Fortem conducts a live UAS mitigation at Falcon Peak on Fort Carson, Colorado, Oct. 30, 2024. Falcon Peak is a USNORTHCOM led counter-small unmanned aircraft system experiment and the first Department of Defense C-sUAS initiative focused on detecting, tracking, and mitigating sUAS incursions at DoD installations in the United States. Falcon Peak occurred between Oct. 19-30, 2024. (U.S. Department of Defense photos by Josh Armstrong)

Fortem Technologies C-UAS Selected for U.S. Army’s New G-TEAD Marketplace

The designation enables rapid, competition-free procurement of Fortem’s counter-UAS systems across the U.S. Government. Fortem Technologies announced that it has…

DARPA’s RACER Program Crosses Finish Line, Puts Off-Road Autonomy in Army, Marine Corps Hands

DARPA’s RACER Program Crosses Finish Line, Puts Off-Road Autonomy in Army, Marine Corps Hands

After four years of experiments with Army and Marine Corps units, DARPA’s RACER program is wrapping up with a reusable ...
infiniDome, Wonder Robotics Introduce IroNav to Keep Small UAS Flying in GNSS-Denied Airspace

infiniDome, Wonder Robotics Introduce IroNav to Keep Small UAS Flying in GNSS-Denied Airspace

Built around GNSS anti-jamming and visual navigation, the joint IroNav system is designed to let small uncrewed aircraft keep navigating, ...
Auterion Demonstrates One-Operator Drone Swarm Strike in U.S. Live-Fire Test

Auterion Demonstrates One-Operator Drone Swarm Strike in U.S. Live-Fire Test

In a Florida range trial tied to the DoD's Swarm Forge program, Auterion says a single operator used its Skynode ...
Taiwan Plans Massive Drone and C-UAS Expansion in New Special Defense Budget

Taiwan Plans Massive Drone and C-UAS Expansion in New Special Defense Budget

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has disclosed that it intends to procure more than 200,000 UAVs, over 1,000 unmanned surface ...
Shielding Airports from UAS Intrusion
Air, Business News, FAA

Shielding Airports from UAS Intrusion

DroneShield and SRI Group offer a model for airport counter-drone protection. DroneSentry units offer multimodal recognition at various ranges of ...
How Federal Cyber Guidance Is Shaping the UAS/C-UAS Market

How Federal Cyber Guidance Is Shaping the UAS/C-UAS Market

As Washington recasts drones and counter-drone systems as networked IT and AI infrastructure, a web of CISA, GSA, FAA, DoD ...
Getting our UAS and National Security Act Together

Getting our UAS and National Security Act Together

To keep pace with modern UAS and C-UAS threats, the U.S. needs a durable framework that unifies rules, shared awareness, ...
Pentagon Task Force Picks Fortem DroneHunter for First Replicator 2 Purchase

Pentagon Task Force Picks Fortem DroneHunter for First Replicator 2 Purchase

The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) has made its first acquisition under the Replicator 2 initiative, awarding ...
FAA-Sponsored Report Backs AURA, NPUASTS BVLOS Voice Relay Performance

FAA-Sponsored Report Backs AURA, NPUASTS BVLOS Voice Relay Performance

A new FAA-sponsored report has documented how AURA Network Systems’ aviation-grade voice-relay architecture performed in beyond visual line of sight ...
Saildrone, Lockheed Martin to Arm USVs for Hybrid Navy Fleet

Saildrone, Lockheed Martin to Arm USVs for Hybrid Navy Fleet

Surveyor to receive JAGM launcher in 2026 live-fire demo; larger unmanned vessels planned for Mk 70 VLS and other payloads ...
Textron Systems Introduces Multi Mission Uncrewed Surface Vessel (MMUSV)

Textron Systems Introduces Multi Mission Uncrewed Surface Vessel (MMUSV)

Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. company, announced today the introduction of its Multi Mission Uncrewed Surface Vessel (MMUSV), the ...
2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense
Air, Cyber, Military

2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense

As mass-produced strike and FPV drones reshape battlefields from Ukraine to the Red Sea, the United States is scrambling to ...
FAA Designates Two New UAS Test Sites in Oklahoma and Indiana
Air, FAA

FAA Designates Two New UAS Test Sites in Oklahoma and Indiana

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved two new designated test sites for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), expanding its national network ...
Agilica Pushes Forward Alternative PNT for UAV Shipboard Landing

Agilica Pushes Forward Alternative PNT for UAV Shipboard Landing

Over the past year, Brussels-based Agilica BV has completed major milestones in the 'Safe autonomous integrated landing system for ships' ...
FCC Carves Out Blue UAS and ‘Buy American’ Drones from Foreign Drone Ban

FCC Carves Out Blue UAS and ‘Buy American’ Drones from Foreign Drone Ban

Two weeks after moving to block new approvals of foreign-made drones and critical components, the Federal Communications Commission has issued ...
Dozens of Federal Agencies Rally Around New Counter-UAS Task Force

Dozens of Federal Agencies Rally Around New Counter-UAS Task Force

Experts from across the federal government have kicked off a three-year campaign to tighten America’s defenses against small drones, underscoring ...
Aaronia Showcases C-UAS & EW Tech at Milipol Paris 2025

Aaronia Showcases C-UAS & EW Tech at Milipol Paris 2025

Repeated drone incidents over European cities, energy facilities, and airports underscore the growing vulnerability of civilian critical infrastructure. Non-cooperative UAVs ...
KULR Technology Rapidly Develops C-UAS Directed Energy Battery System

KULR Technology Rapidly Develops C-UAS Directed Energy Battery System

KULR Technology Group, Inc., a Bitcoin+ Treasury company that builds a portfolio of frontier technology businesses ranging from high-performance energy ...
Fortem Technologies C-UAS Selected for U.S. Army’s New G-TEAD Marketplace

Fortem Technologies C-UAS Selected for U.S. Army’s New G-TEAD Marketplace

The designation enables rapid, competition-free procurement of Fortem’s counter-UAS systems across the U.S. Government. Drone Hunter by Fortem conducts a ...
FEMA Launches $500 Million C-UAS Grant Program for State and Local Drone Defense

FEMA Launches $500 Million C-UAS Grant Program for State and Local Drone Defense

When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll went on CBS’ Face the Nation this past Sunday and called drones and “flying IEDs” ...
GA-ASI Showcases Collaborative Combat Aircraft at Dubai Airshow 

GA-ASI Showcases Collaborative Combat Aircraft at Dubai Airshow 

A full-size model of the YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) produced by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for the ...
Army Secretary Signals Demand for UAS and C-UAS Tech

Army Secretary Signals Demand for UAS and C-UAS Tech

On Face the Nation, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll outlined an ambitious million-drone plan, a new component-focused industrial base, and a ...
Report: What Unmanned Systems is America’s Military Buying in 2026? 

Report: What Unmanned Systems is America’s Military Buying in 2026? 

A turbulent FY2026 landscape favors affordable, modular, and rapidly fieldable unmanned systems—especially sUAS and loitering munitions—while legacy programs face cancellations, ...
Joby Turbine-Electric Autonomous VTOL Demonstrator Makes First Flight

Joby Turbine-Electric Autonomous VTOL Demonstrator Makes First Flight

Joby Aviation has completed the first flight of a turbine-electric, autonomous VTOL demonstrator that blends a hybrid turbine powertrain with ...
Einride to Go Public on Cabless AV Freight Vision

Einride to Go Public on Cabless AV Freight Vision

Einride is heading for the public markets—and using the announcement to highlight what it sees as a differentiated autonomous freight ...
RIEGL Still Rising at InterGEO 2025

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, ...
uAvionix and OneSky Partner to Advance UAS Traffic Management 

uAvionix and OneSky Partner to Advance UAS Traffic Management 

uAvionix, a leader in advanced airspace surveillance and communications solutions, and OneSky, a global provider of uncrewed traffic management (UTM) ...
Hexagon to Acquire Inertial Sense, Strengthening its Positioning Portfolio

Hexagon to Acquire Inertial Sense, Strengthening its Positioning Portfolio

Hexagon has announced an agreement to acquire Inertial Sense, a provider of tactical-grade global navigation solutions and inertial navigation systems ...
SubSea Craft and Greenroom Robotics Strengthen AUKUS Technology Ecosystem

SubSea Craft and Greenroom Robotics Strengthen AUKUS Technology Ecosystem

SubSea Craft (SSC) and Australian company Greenroom Robotics have signed a teaming agreement marking the next step in strengthening collaboration ...
Ondas to Acquire Sentrycs to Expand Counter-UAS Portfolio

Ondas to Acquire Sentrycs to Expand Counter-UAS Portfolio

Ondas Holdings Inc., a provider of autonomous aerial and ground robot intelligence through its Ondas Autonomous Systems (OAS) announced it ...
FIXAR equips outdoor UAVs with the BlackBox for safer sky

FIXAR equips outdoor UAVs with the BlackBox for safer sky

From September 2021, FIXAR is equipping all its outdoor drones with the additional FIXAR BlackBox system for UAV flight data ...
SBG Systems to partner with Septentrio to extend the use of Qinertia post-processing software to their mapping and surveying users

SBG Systems to partner with Septentrio to extend the use of Qinertia post-processing software to their mapping and surveying users

SBG Systems’ popular INS/GNSS PPK software called Qinertia is now available to users of Septentrio AsteRx-i3 D Pro+, AsteRx-i3 S ...
New LiDAR sensors added as OxTS release OxTS Georeferencer 1.5

New LiDAR sensors added as OxTS release OxTS Georeferencer 1.5

Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS) a manufacturer of survey-specific Inertial Navigation Systems has released the latest version of their LiDAR georeferencing ...
Septentrio Mowi

New Open-source Wireless GPS/GNSS Hardware for Autonomous and IoT Applications

Septentrio, a provider of high-precision GNSS positioning solutions, announced an open-source resources for its GPS/GNSS module receivers: mosaic wireless or ...
ZURI Hybrid VTOL Tech Demonstrator is Ready to Hover

ZURI Hybrid VTOL Tech Demonstrator is Ready to Hover

The ground test of the VTOL ZURI concept has recently been carried out. The results of the trial allow ZURI ...
NVIDIA Announces New AI Perception Coming to ROS Developers

NVIDIA Announces New AI Perception Coming to ROS Developers

NVIDIA has announced new initiatives to deliver a suite of perception technologies to the Robotics Operating System (ROS) developer community ...
Hexagon | NovAtel GNSS SMART Antenna now the default receiver selection on Fendt machines in North America, Europe and the Middle East

Hexagon | NovAtel GNSS SMART Antenna now the default receiver selection on Fendt machines in North America, Europe and the Middle East

Standard Fendt guidance packages now include NovAtel's SMART7 Hexagon | NovAtel is proud to announce that Fendt machines in North ...
INTERGEO 2021 Live + Digital, September 21-23, 2021: RIEGL Presents Their New Products 2021

INTERGEO 2021 Live + Digital, September 21-23, 2021: RIEGL Presents Their New Products 2021

INTERGEO is back LIVE in Hanover this year – and RIEGL presents the latest developments in hardware and software at booth 20C.22 ...
SEA-KIT wins funding to demonstrate zero emission hydrogen fuel cell technology for USVs

SEA-KIT wins funding to demonstrate zero emission hydrogen fuel cell technology for USVs

SEA-KIT International, leading designer and builder of Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), has won funding to install an innovative PCB- based ...
Finnish MarshallAI wins U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored AI challenge

Finnish MarshallAI wins U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored AI challenge

The European pioneer in machine vision, MarshallAI, won the international xTech Global AI Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. Department of ...
Testing of the Czech Primoco UAV One 150 for the Czech Army

Testing of the Czech Primoco UAV One 150 for the Czech Army

Primoco UAV SE, the Czech company, and the Army of the Czech Republic successfully tested the Primoco UAV One 150 ...
Hexagon revolutionises autonomous reality capture with the launch of the Leica BLK ARC and Leica BLK2FLY

Hexagon revolutionises autonomous reality capture with the launch of the Leica BLK ARC and Leica BLK2FLY

Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions, announced the introduction of the Leica BLK ARC and the Leica BLK2FLY, extending ...
Teledyne FLIR Unveils Radiometric Vue TZ20-R Thermal Zoom Drone Payload

Teledyne FLIR Unveils Radiometric Vue TZ20-R Thermal Zoom Drone Payload

High-Resolution Radiometric Gimbaled Thermal Drone Payload for the DJI V2 Matrice 200 Series and Matrice 300 Offers Pixel-by-Pixel Temperature Measurement ...
Tallysman HC990E

Embedded Full-Band GNSS Helical Antenna for UAVs

Tallysman Wireless Inc. has added its first full-band GNSS antenna to its line of helical antennas. The HC990E embedded helical ...
Domo Tactical Communications Launches 2x1w Software Defined Radio & WUI at DSEI 2021

Domo Tactical Communications Launches 2x1w Software Defined Radio & WUI at DSEI 2021

Domo Tactical Communications (DTC), the wireless communications specialist, is launching its Software Defined Radio 2x1W Plain (SOL8SDR2x1W-P) at DSEI 2021 ...
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