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,…

NATO Brings Industry to Brussels for C-UAS Week, Ramps Up Counter-Drone Efforts

NATO Brings Industry to Brussels for C-UAS Week, Ramps Up Counter-Drone Efforts

Secretary General Mark Rutte uses NATO’s C-UAS Industry Day to underline lessons from Ukraine and recent drone incursions into Allied ...
FAA Reopens Part 108 BVLOS Comment Period

FAA Reopens Part 108 BVLOS Comment Period

After more than 3,000 comments, many around its right-of-way proposals, the FAA has reopened the BVLOS rulemaking for a short, ...
FAA Reorg Puts AAM, Drones and BVLOS Under “Advanced Aviation Technologies” Office
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FAA Reorg Puts AAM, Drones and BVLOS Under “Advanced Aviation Technologies” Office

The FAA’s largest-ever organizational overhaul creates a dedicated office for advanced aviation technologies, a centralized safety management organization, and an ...
Norway’s Eelume WP960 USV Debuts as AI-Enabled Mine Countermeasures “Mothership”

Norway’s Eelume WP960 USV Debuts as AI-Enabled Mine Countermeasures “Mothership”

Maritime Robotics, Eelume and partners have unveiled a new optionally-manned USV that carries a swarm of flexible AUVs and ROVs, ...
C-UAS: Anticipating What’s Next

C-UAS: Anticipating What’s Next

The drone threat continues to evolve—both on the battlefield and now in the homeland—making it critical for counter-UAS (C-UAS) technology ...
Athena C-UAS Integration Bolsters Air Defense over Washington, DC
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Athena C-UAS Integration Bolsters Air Defense over Washington, DC

After seven years of development, the government-owned Athena integration kit has reached initial operating capability for the National Capital Region, ...
Airspace Link Adds Real-Time Drone Alert Tool in AirHub Portal Ahead of 2026 World Cup

Airspace Link Adds Real-Time Drone Alert Tool in AirHub Portal Ahead of 2026 World Cup

The new Alert Areas feature in Airspace Link’s AirHub Portal gives public safety agencies and critical infrastructure operators real-time notifications ...
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
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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 ...
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 ...
Apium Joins Red Cat Futures Initiative to Advance Swarming Autonomy for Tactical Drones

Apium Joins Red Cat Futures Initiative to Advance Swarming Autonomy for Tactical Drones

Apium Swarm Robotics, Inc. a developer of distributed autonomy for unmanned systems, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Red Cat ...
Lockheed Martin Invests $50M in Saildrone to Advance Unmanned Surface Vehicle Capabilities for US Navy

Lockheed Martin Invests $50M in Saildrone to Advance Unmanned Surface Vehicle Capabilities for US Navy

Lockheed Martin has announced a $50 million investment in Saildrone, a global leader in maritime autonomous systems. Image: Saildrone This ...
AUVSI and Altana Partner to Bolster Supply Chain Security for Green UAS and Blue UAS Programs

AUVSI and Altana Partner to Bolster Supply Chain Security for Green UAS and Blue UAS Programs

The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) today announced a new partnership with Altana, the network for trusted trade, ...
U.S. Army Selects AEVEX Atlas for Initial Launched Effects Fielding

U.S. Army Selects AEVEX Atlas for Initial Launched Effects Fielding

The U.S. Army has selected AEVEX’s Atlas Precision Strike System for its initial Launched Effects–Short Range (LE-SR) fielding effort. Image: ...
ANRA Achieves 100 Hour Drone Delivery Milestone

ANRA Achieves 100 Hour Drone Delivery Milestone

ANRA Technologies, a leader in integrated airspace, mission management, and delivery systems for uncrewed aircraft, achieved a 100-flight hour milestone ...
Verizon Expands UAV Capabilities
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Verizon Expands UAV Capabilities

Verizon, the venerable company that began life as a regional bell operating company (RBOC) after the 1980s breakup of AT&T, ...
WiBotic Introduces New Lineup of Chargers and Transmitters for Drones and Autonomous Mobile Robots

WiBotic Introduces New Lineup of Chargers and Transmitters for Drones and Autonomous Mobile Robots

WiBotic, a Seattle company that specializes in advanced charging and power optimization solutions for the rapidly expanding ecosystem of aerial, ...
ANRA Demonstrates Complete Drone Delivery Solution

ANRA Demonstrates Complete Drone Delivery Solution

ANRA Technologies successfully flew a series of drone delivery demonstrations at Florida Department of Transportation and Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise SunTrax facility for SASHTO ...
UAV Factory announces VTOL SYSTEM release

UAV Factory announces VTOL SYSTEM release

The Penguin C Mk2 VTOL provides precision vertical takeoff and landing capability to support missions in more restrictive environments. The ...
Anemoment Unveils New 3D Sonic Anemometer Engineered for UAS-based Atmospheric Flux and Turbulence Research

Anemoment Unveils New 3D Sonic Anemometer Engineered for UAS-based Atmospheric Flux and Turbulence Research

TriSonica™ Sphere Designed to Deliver More Precise Vertical Wind Measurements Coupled with Fast Sampling Rat Anemoment LLC, (Xponential, Booth 2230) ...
PIPISTREL SELECTS HONEYWELL’S REVOLUTIONARY SMALL UAV SATCOM SYSTEM FOR ALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT PLATFORMS

PIPISTREL SELECTS HONEYWELL’S REVOLUTIONARY SMALL UAV SATCOM SYSTEM FOR ALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT PLATFORMS

Honeywell’s satellite communications system for Nuuva V300, V20 and Surveyor aircraft is world’s smallest, but packs the punch of technology ...
Wing launches free drone flyer app, OpenSky, to simplify airspace access

Wing launches free drone flyer app, OpenSky, to simplify airspace access

Wing, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved UAS Service Supplier of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), made ...
Watts Innovations release PRISM Sky on Auterion platform

Watts Innovations release PRISM Sky on Auterion platform

With the market for open ecosystem drones on the rise, customers benefit from NDAA compliant heavy-lift drone designed and assembled ...
Sony and Auterion Announnce Plug-n-play Integration

Sony and Auterion Announnce Plug-n-play Integration

Auterion and Sony integration drives innovation and opens possibilities for commercial drone industry  Plug-and-play integration without requiring a single line ...
Fugro Autonomous Surface Vessel

Blue Shadow Autonomous Hydrography Vessel

The Fugro Blue Shadow is a 9-meter long uncrewed surface vessel designed to increase data acquisition efficiency and accelerate hydrographic ...
senseFly Releases eBee TAC UAS
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senseFly Releases eBee TAC UAS

The new eBee TAC fixed-wing UAS from senseFly is optimized for enhanced tactical mapping. The portable UAS weighs 3.5 pounds ...
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