The FAA has deemed Remote ID to be an essential component for advanced drone operations, but the rules requiring its use have been anything but swift and sure.
A New Era for Aviation Safety and Efficiency: uAvionix Acquires Iris Automation
Bigfork, MT 24 October 2023 – uAvionix, a leader in communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) solutions for the safe integration…
Florida Company Helps Moldova Modernize its Utilities with Drones
A Florida-based remote sensing company is working with the Republic of Moldova’s state-owned power company, preparing workers to leverage unmanned…
U.S. Military Adopting Unmanned Technology at Rapid Pace
Facing new and growing challenges, the U.S. military is seeking to get technology, including unmanned systems, into the field as…
SwissDrones Achieves Milestone FAA Authorization for Beyond Visual Line of Sight UAV Operations
First-in-kind, historic BVLOS approval enables multi-sensor, long-endurance flight operations for SDO 50 V2 uncrewed helicopters. Zurich, Switzerland – October 24,…
Shield AI, Sentient Vision Team to Put ViDAR on V-BAT UAS
Shield AI is collaborating with Australia’s Sentient Vision Systems to supply Sentient’s ViDAR wide-area motion imagery system on Shield’s V-BAT UAS.
Defending Prison Airspace
Counter-UAS systems are combatting a vertical security gap when it comes to smuggling contraband into prisons. Prisons are designed to…
More Agencies May Get Counter-UAS Authority, but It’s no ‘Slam Dunk’
A move is afoot in Congress, at the White House, the FAA and other agencies to allow more federal agencies,…
Counter-UAS Systems Showcase a Variety of Defenses at AUSA
For every unmanned aircraft on display at the Association of the United States Army’s recent conference, there was a system on display that could detect or defeat it.
Black Sea Drone War: How a Country with No Warships Has Russia’s Navy on the Run
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been reduced to a defensive crouch by cruise missiles and kamikaze drones. The many large…
Drones on the Front Line for Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
Ukraine launched its long-awaited counteroffensive this summer, but Russian drones and artillery have slowed it down, forcing a change in tactics.
Lawmakers, Analysts Express Doubts, Concerns About Replicator Program
Members of Congress and defense industry analysts on Oct. 19 expressed concerns about the Department of Defense’s still largely undefined Replicator program.
Market Map: Security Robots
ROBOTS ON DUTY:PROTECTING EMPLOYEES, PROPERTY AND CRITICAL ASSETS Automation and economics are driving adoption of UAVs and UGVs for surveillance…
Saildrone Fleet Surpasses 1M Nautical Miles, 32K Days at Sea
Saildrone announced its fleet of USVs has surpassed a cumulative distance of 1 million nautical miles during more than 32,000 days at sea.
Berlin INTERGEO Dispatch II
To the outsider, INTERGEO 2023 looks like most high-technology trade fairs – a lot of friendly engineers and marketers demonstrating…
As Emesent Turns Five, the CEO Looks Back – and Ahead
Emesent mobile LiDAR scanning units and visualization software can help people make sense of all kinds of challenging environments, but…
Tyto Robotics Launches Flight Stand 500 for Advanced Air Mobility Propulsion Testing
Tyto Robotics has introduced its latest advancement, the Flight Stand 500, a thrust stand engineered for testing large brushless motors ...
u-blox Launches JODY-W6 Module for Enhanced Automotive Connectivity
u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, has unveiled the JODY-W6 module. This compact module features concurrent ...
uAvionix to Lead Integration for Skyway UAS Range in Tulsa
uAvionix, a provider of avionics solutions for both crewed and uncrewed aircraft, has secured a contract from the Oklahoma Aerospace ...
Matternet Granted Authorization for BVLOS Drone Delivery Operations in Berlin
Matternet, the developer of an urban drone delivery platform, has received approval from the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany’s Federal Aviation Office, ...
Better Technology, Better Hurricane Data
Hurricane hunting gets better and better while the experience stays the same. Michael “Izzy” Israelitt never thought he’d follow in ...
Five Good Questions: Randy DeYoung
Randy DeYoung, professor and research scientist, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute. Q: Why is there a need to estimate wild animal ...
Advanced Aircraft Company Appointments Vice Admiral David Architzel USN (Ret) to its Board of Advisors
Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC), a manufacturer of distributed electric propulsion tilt-wing and multi-rotor uncrewed aircraft vehicles (UAV), today announced the appointment ...
The World is on Fire. UAS Have Joined the Fight.
Climate conditions are leading to more wildfires, but drones can help prevent them or keep them at bay. Wildfires in ...
PDW’s C100 Drone Earns Approval for Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue UAS List
PDW, a developer in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has announced that its C100 drone has been approved for inclusion in ...
Old MacDonald Had a Bot
Autonomous Seed-and-Weed Systems Get Ready to Roll to Boost Farm Sustainability A larger robot from Naïo Technologies, named Ted. People ...
Demonstration Project to Showcase Drones in Weather Forecasting
Worldwide effort could lead to new methods of forecasting by using drones alongside radiosondes and and weather balloons. A University ...
Mayflower Autonomous Ship Gears up for Research
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship is holed up for the winter at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Massachusetts. When it ...
Saving the World, One Prize at a Time
Autonomous Contenders Vie for the XPrize Foundation's $10 Million Rainforest Competition Brazil will host the XPrize Foundation's Rainforest Finals in ...
Army Corps of Engineers Expands Use of Drones
Corps Focuses on Training and Protocols, Speeds Mission Approval Time. An ERDC pilot prepares his drone for a recovery flight ...
Restoring Communication After a Disaster
First responders are deploying drones to quickly assess damaged cell phone towers as well as to establish temporary networks, both ...
2022 Top Drone Industry Developments
Looking back on 2022, the drone industry had a banner year. Some of the big developments include positive movement on ...
NASA to Utilize Commercially Available TerraPoiNT Network in SF Bay Area to Further Urban Air Mobility Development
NextNav, a leader in next generation GPS, announced that it has been selected by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon ...
Highlander Partners Announces Acquisition of Counter-UAS Company Liteye Systems
Highlander Partners L.P. announced the acquisition of Liteye Systems, which develops, integrates and manufactures counter unmanned aircraft systems ...
FAA Grants BVLOS Waiver for Percepto’s Drone in a Box System
A Percepto drone in a box at an oil and gas facility. Credit: Percepto AUSTIN, Texas—Percepto, which provides automated drone-in-a-box ...
FSF to Recognize International Teams for Safety Leadership, Innovation
The government/industry-led Aviation Safety InfoShare and a team comprising Zipline and the governments of Rwanda and Ghana will be honored ...
U.S. Border Patrol Purchasing Over $1 Million in Drones from Red Cat Holdings
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will order $1 million worth of Teal Drones’ Golden Eagle UAS, its parent company Red ...
Aerosonde UAS Supporting Fourth U.S. Navy Ship with Extended Range ISR Services
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde UAS will provide operational support to the USS Miquel Keith (ESB 5), bringing the total number of ...
VectorNav Technologies Provides GNSS/INS with RTK for Indy Autonomous Challenge
The Indy Autonomous Challenge Dallara AV-21 Racecar. VectorNav Technologies, a world leader in inertial navigation solutions, announced today that it ...
Airobotics Ltd. to Acquire Iron-Drone Assets to Offer Counter-Drone Capabilities Via Its Optimus System
Airobotics’ Optimus Urban Drone Infrastructure - Continuous Surveillance 24/7 (credit: Airobotics) AIROBOTICS Ltd., a leading provider of autonomous unmanned aircraft ...
Volatus Aerospace Adds Over 500,000 km of Oil & Gas Pipeline Right of Way Surveillance with Acquisition of Synergy Aviation Ltd.
Volatus Aerospace Corp. announced today that it has signed an arm's length definitive agreement dated Oct 12, 2022, to acquire ...
Topcon and James Roe expand European motorsports journey with race in Monza
Fresh off a class win in the Italian GT Endurance round at Vallelunga, race car driver James Roe Jr. and ...
M3 Systems, Pipistrel, and Volocopter Complete Deconfliction Flight Tests in France
M3 Systems, air traffic management (ATM) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operator, light and electric aircraft manufacturer, Pipistrel, and Volocopter, ...
Consortiq Expands Services
Consortiq chief pilot Wyatt Filipowicz performs pre-flight operations prior to inspection of an above-ground liquid petroleum pipeline, using a PhaseOne ...
Trimble sets Ambitious Goals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Science-Based Targets Across Trimble Operations and Value Chain Accelerate Company's Efforts to Combat Climate Change Trimble announced today its commitment ...
U.S. Army awards FTUAS Increment 1 OTA to AeroVironment
The U.S. Army awarded the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) Increment 1 (INC 1) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) on ...
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