John Peterson is the executive director of aviation at Iridium Communications Inc., the only satellite communications company that offers truly…
Coming Soon to an Airport Near You: AAM
NASA, working with industry partners, is pushing advanced air mobility concepts forward, with unmanned cargo delivery a likely prospect in…
Two Birds with One Replicator: DOD Aims for Innovative Strategy that Benefits Small Drone Builders
An innovative defense strategy and support for smaller domestic drone manufacturers: It’s always good when two desirable outcomes can derive from one effort.
Warfare in Ukraine Shows How Small UAS Can Work in Battle
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Ukraine’s furious response to it, have opened the eyes of militaries around the world to the role small UAS can play in warfare, an Army requirements chief said.
Army Preparing for new SUAS Systems, Runway-Independent Future
The U.S. Army is planning more flexible unmanned systems, changing its strategies for using them and insisting on common hardware and software interfaces, a top UAS official said.
Trends: Scaling Up for Drone Delivery
Delivery drones are making an impact, safely transporting critical medical supplies to remote areas, hot lunches and goods to people’s…
Shield AI Demonstrates AI-piloted, Teaming V-BATs with AFWERX
Shield AI today announced the successful completion of an autonomous teaming demonstration featuring three V-BAT unmanned aircraft systems.
UAvionix, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Complete First U.S. Flights Under FAA, FCC Approvals
UAvionix, operating at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Emerging Aviation Technology Center, completed the first true beyond visual line of sight flight in non-segregated airspace using aviation protected C-Band in the United States.
Army Looks to MOSA and Savings as it Moves to Mix of Manned, Unmanned Systems
The U.S. Army knows where it wants to be in a decade with its mixed of crewed, unmanned and autonomous systems, but the biggest obstacle to getting there is the budget, said Forrest Collier, the new chief of staff for Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation.
Drone-Based Delivery Readies for Launch in Europe and Beyond
Companies on both sides of the Atlantic are gearing up for full-scale exploitation of drone technologies for goods delivery. If…
Delivering the Goods
On the road to autonomous delivery, the ground-vehicle industry is developing technology and solutions for long-haul on-highway trucks supported by…
AeroVironment to Acquire Control Systems Company Tomahawk Robotics
AeroVironment has announced its anticipated acquisition of Tomahawk Robotics, a leader in AI-enabled robotic control systems.
FAA Grants BVLOS Waiver for Phoenix Air Unmanned
The FAA has granted a waiver exemption request for drone BVLOS flights from Georgia-based Phoenix Air Unmanned, flying SwissDrones systems for aerial work, aerial photography, survey and powerline and pipeline patrol and inspection.
Navy Demonstrating Programs for Drone Delivery at Sea
Making deliveries from shore and at sea could make operations more efficient for the Navy at sea and Marine Corps Warfighters on land.
D-Fend Solutions Launches EnforceAir2 Next Generation Counter-UAS System
Counter-drone company D-Fend Solutions announced the launch of its new product, EnforceAir2, which features the best offerings of the original with enhanced and extended C-UAS capabilities.
Speed and Efficiency: Walmart and DroneUp Expand Drone Delivery
Order by order, last-mile drone delivery to households is slowly becoming a reality.
Washington View: ‘We Owe You a Path’ to Certification and BVLOS Flight, FAA Tells Industry
With the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for BVLOS flights in the National Airspace System now penciled in for August 2024,…
U.S. Army Moving Out with Small UAS
Textron Systems' Aerosonde Hybrid Quad UAS, one of the finalists in the Army FTUAS competition. The U.S. Army is leaning ...
Saildrone Completes Unique Mission to Detect Bats at Sea Using Autonomous Vehicles
Saildrone and Bat Conservation International announced completion of a first-of-its-kind mission to study bats in an offshore environment using an ...
Michigan Central, MDOT launch Advanced Aerial Innovation Region in Detroit
Michigan Central and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced today the launch of Detroit’s Advanced Aerial Innovation Region ...
Remote ID: Alive and Kicking?
The FAA has deemed Remote ID to be an essential component for advanced drone operations, but the rules requiring its ...
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 demonstration of using drones to inspect power lines in Moldova. Photo courtesy of Triad Drones. A Florida-based remote sensing ...
U.S. Military Adopting Unmanned Technology at Rapid Pace
A MAST-13 unmanned surface vessel approaches the U.K. Royal Navy Fleet Auxiliary landing dock ship RFA Lyme Bay while operating ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wingcopter teams up with UAV LATAM for drone delivery operations in Peru
German drone delivery pioneer Wingcopter is partnering with UAV LATAM, a Latin American holding with more than 10 years of ...
SEA-KIT and Fugro ink contract for next generation 18m USV
World leading Geo-data specialist, Fugro, has ordered a SEA-KIT XL Class Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) for future North Sea operations ...
Verizon and AWS expand by more than 30% the number of metro area locations with mobile edge computing
Verizon and AWS are now offering mobile edge computing in more U.S. metro areas with the addition of Charlotte, Detroit, ...
HHLA Sky and Hamburg Port Authority HPA form technology partnership at the Port of Hamburg
HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) have agreed to a ...
MDGROUP ACQUIRES GEOCUE GROUP
mdGroup broadens its expertise in aerial LiDAR surveying technologies and consolidates its leadership in the U.S. in professional aerial surveying ...
Neuron Leverages the Hedera Network for Drone Radar System in UK Government Sponsored Trial
Neuron, a leader in aviation technology and air traffic critical national infrastructure, has leveraged the Hedera network, the most used, ...
Zenith AeroTech, VIRTEX Form Strategic Partnership to Meet Increasing Customer Demand for Long-endurance, Heavy-lift, Tethered Drones
Zenith AeroTech, a leading developer of heavy-lift tethered aerial vehicles (TAVs), announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership ...
Inertial Labs Acquires MEMSENSE, IMU Developer
Inertial Labs, a developer and supplier of orientation, inertial navigation, and optically enhanced sensor modules, has acquired MEMSENSE, a developer ...
DroneBase Acquires AirProbe
Gains Analytics and UAV Capabilities, Expanded Footprint DroneBase, a Santa Monica, California supplier of intelligent aerial imagery, recently announced its ...
HAPS Alliance White Paper on Flight Tests Demonstrates Communication Opportunities
The HAPS Alliance, an international association of cross-industry players working to enable a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) ecosystem, today announced ...
Dedrone Secures $30.5 Million Series C to Protect Airspace Against Unauthorized Drones
Axon leads investment round to help ensure airspace security and community safety Dedrone, the market leader in smart airspace security, ...
Royal Australian Navy Awards ScanEagle Contract Extension to Insitu Pacific
Insitu Pacific has been awarded a three-year contract extension by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for the sustainment of its ...
First Flights in EU Project Implementing Movement of Drones Over Cities Started in Poland
A first series of test flights with drones got underway in November in Rzeszów, Poland as part of the Urban ...
LMT Showcases Deployment of Unmanned Systems in a Milrem Robotics-led iMUGS Consortium Demonstration
The iMUGS Consortium, in charge of a 32,6M EUR project developing the European standard unmanned ground system (UGS), demonstrated how ...
NVIDIA introduces New Jetson AGX Orin “AI Supercomputer”
NVIDIA has just introduced the Jetson AGX Orin™, which it bills as the world’s “smallest, most powerful and energy-efficient AI ...
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