AeroVironment (AV) has announced a suite of software updates, called Project GOLD, that elevate the battlefield effectiveness of its Puma…
DoD Announces Second Tranche of Replicator Platforms
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks has announced additional capabilities selected for accelerated fielding as part of the Replicator initiative….
Interview with Red Cat Holdings – AUKUS Pillar 2 Milestones Point Toward Integrated Autonomous, AI Operations
AUKUS is a strategic trilateral security pact formed in September 2021 between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Its primary aim…
Sikorsky And Rain Successfully Demonstrate Wildfire Mission Autonomy
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Rain, a provider of autonomous aerial wildfire containment technology, successfully demonstrated how an autonomous…
COAST Autonomous Enhances Robotic Intelligence with TorqueAGI’s Generative AI
COAST Autonomous, a provider of autonomous robotic systems, has entered into a strategic partnership with TorqueAGI, a Generative AI startup…
GA-ASI and US Navy Fly MQ-20 Avenger Using MD-5 GCS To Perform Commanded Autonomy Maneuvers
On November 5, 2024, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used its MQ-20 Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System to perform commanded…
DIU Blue UAS Refresh Challenge Tests UAS Platforms for DoD
The Defense Innovation Unit hosted the first annual Blue UAS Refresh event at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center,…
ANRA Technologies Secures FAA Approval for Non-Vertically Integrated UTM for Critical Infrastructure Operations
ANRA Technologies, a provider of airspace management solutions, has announced that it has received a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) from…
Insitu Announces Proliferated-Low Earth Orbit Satellite Control for Integrator UAS with 2,000 Nautical Mile Range
Insitu, A Boeing Company, is now leveraging Proliferated-Low Earth Orbit (P-LEO) Satellite Communication (SATCOM) control for its Integrator Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS)….
D-Fend Solutions Enters Agreement with Naval Surface Warfare Center for C-UAS Testing
The program is set to collect data and evaluate EnforceAir C-UAS system’s capabilities in airport environments. D-Fend Solutions, a provider…
Volatus Aerospace and Kongsberg Geospatial Collaborate to Advance RPAS BVLOS Operations
Volatus Aerospace Inc., a provider of advanced aerial solutions, and Kongsberg Geospatial, specializing in geospatial software and situational awareness solutions,…
Amazon Announces BVLOS Drone Delivery in Phoenix Metro Area
Amazon has announced the launch of Prime Air drone delivery in the West Valley of the Phoenix Metro Area in…
FAA UAS Integration Office Issues RFI on Research Areas to Inform Standards
The FAA’s UAS Integration Office has issued a new Request for Information pertaining to likely research areas for emergent business…
SkySafe and Fortem Technologies Announce Partnership for Counter UAS
SkySafe, a provider of radio frequency-based drone detection, and Fortem Technologies, specializing in airspace intelligence, security, and defense for detecting and…
General Atomics and BAE Systems Collaborate on Autonomous Electronic Warfare Link 16 Capabilities
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) collaborated with BAE Systems to demonstrate unique electronic warfare (EW) capabilities remotely controlled via…
Kraus Hamdani Wins $20 Million Contract to Deliver Ultra-Long Endurance UAS to the U.S. Army
Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, a producer of ultra-long endurance Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technology, has announced the award of $20 million…
National League of Cities Launches Aviation Advisory Forum Focused on Air Taxis and Drones
The National League of Cities (NLC) has launched a national Aviation Advisory Forum on Air Mobility and Drone Integration. Mayor Buddy Dyer…
TEKEVER Raises €70M from Backers including NATO
The funding round is led by Baillie Gifford and backed by the NATO Innovation Fund. New strategic investors will support a sustainable ...
Defense Innovation Unit Announces Software Vendors to Support Replicator
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has announced contract awards to select software developers supporting the Replicator initiative. These vendors will ...
The GEODNET Foundation Introduces GEO-PULSE Car GPS Navigation Device
The GEODNET Foundation has announced the launch of GEO-PULSE, a GPS device designed to deliver unprecedented positioning accuracy. Leveraging the ...
Red Cat Selected for U.S. Army Short Range Reconnaissance Program
Red Cat’s next generation Teal system will be the Army’s Program of Record SRR sUAS, concluding the rigorous, multi-tranche competitive ...
AeroVironment to Acquire BlueHalo for $4.1 Billion
AeroVironment, Inc. and BlueHalo LLC today announced the execution of a definitive agreement under which AV will acquire BlueHalo in ...
Anduril Wins $200 Million Contract to Develop CUAS for the Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS)
Anduril has been awarded a $200 million, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to develop ...
WingXpand and Raytheon Collaborate on AI Solutions, Launches VTOL
WingXpand, a U.S. provider of autonomous smart planes using AI threat detection, is collaborating with RTX’s Raytheon, a provider of defense ...
Matternet Partners with ANRA to Enhance UTM Services for Urban Drone Networks
Matternet, an urban drone delivery company, has announced a strategic partnership with ANRA Technologies, a provider of Unmanned Aircraft Systems ...
AV Unveils Software Updates to Enhance Puma UAS Capabilities in Contested Environments
AeroVironment (AV) has announced a suite of software updates, called Project GOLD, that elevate the battlefield effectiveness of its Puma ...
DoD Announces Second Tranche of Replicator Platforms
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks has announced additional capabilities selected for accelerated fielding as part of the Replicator initiative ...
Interview with Red Cat Holdings – AUKUS Pillar 2 Milestones Point Toward Integrated Autonomous, AI Operations
AUKUS is a strategic trilateral security pact formed in September 2021 between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States ...
Sikorsky And Rain Successfully Demonstrate Wildfire Mission Autonomy
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Rain, a provider of autonomous aerial wildfire containment technology, successfully demonstrated how an autonomous ...
COAST Autonomous Enhances Robotic Intelligence with TorqueAGI’s Generative AI
COAST Autonomous, a provider of autonomous robotic systems, has entered into a strategic partnership with TorqueAGI, a Generative AI startup ...
GA-ASI and US Navy Fly MQ-20 Avenger Using MD-5 GCS To Perform Commanded Autonomy Maneuvers
On November 5, 2024, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used its MQ-20 Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System to perform commanded ...
DIU Blue UAS Refresh Challenge Tests UAS Platforms for DoD
The Defense Innovation Unit hosted the first annual Blue UAS Refresh event at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, ...
National League of Cities Launches Aviation Advisory Forum Focused on Air Taxis and Drones
The National League of Cities (NLC) has launched a national Aviation Advisory Forum on Air Mobility and Drone Integration. Mayor Buddy Dyer ...
Hirth Engines: Redefining Two-Stroke and Hybrid Propulsion for UAVs
From the early days of aviation to the latest advances in hybrid engines for UAVs, Hirth Engines continues to strive ...
Teledyne FLIR Defense Wins $91 Million Contract from U.S. Army for Black Hornet 4 Nano-Drones
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has won a five-year contract worth up to $91 million to ...
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 ...
Leica BLK2FLY Features Exploratory Scanning, Interior Autonomous Reality Capture from the Air
Image: Leica Geosystems. Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has announced significant improvements to the BLK2FLY autonomous flying laser scanner. The ...
Red Cat Introduces ARACHNID Family of Small ISR and Precision Strike Systems at AUSA 2024
Red Cat, a drone technology company building hardware and software for military, federal, and commercial operations, has announced its ARACHNID ...
SkyfireAI: Integrating AI and UAS for Public Safety and Defense
In September, Skyfire Consulting announced its acquisition by Echelon AI, an autonomous and swarming AI company for UAS, backed by ...
AeroVironment Releases the P550 Autonomous Group 2 eVTOL UAS
AeroVironment (AV) has introduced the P550 advanced autonomous Group 2 eVTOL uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed for battlefield adaptability and operational ...
Calian Introduces the VCS6000XF Smart Choke: A Game-Changing GNSS Solution for UAS Applications
The VCS6000XF Smart Choke, with a combined antenna/receiver design and integration with the Septentrio Mosaic X5, provides support for evolving ...
Anduril Unveils Bolt ISR Drone and Loitering Munition
On October 10, Anduril unveiled a new low-cost, man-packable quadcopter drone called Bolt designed for fielding by frontline infantry units ...
GeoCue Launches LP360 Land Software to Process Handheld LiDAR data
GeoCue, a provider of geospatial technology, has announced the release of LP360 Land, a new addition to the LP360 software ...
ARES Security and MatrixSpace Provision Radar for Expeditionary Forces
ARES Security and MatrixSpace have announced a technology partnership that combines AI collaborative sensing capability of MatrixSpace Radar with ARES Security’s AVERT Mission ...
UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía Contributes to Development of the Future Combat Air System
UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has announced their collaboration with SATNUS (a company formed by GMV, Sener Aeroespacial and Tecnobit-Grupo Oesía) on the ...
Belgian Partnership Develops U-Space Capabilities
Unifly, a provider of UTM technology, and Nexova, specialists in advanced cyber security solutions, have designed a secure, unmanned traffic ...
Navigating the Future of UAS Communications
As the UAS industry evolves, the need for secure and reliable Command and Control (C2) communications has never been more ...
Canada’s Federal Fleet Services Installs MARSS CUAS System on Combat Support Ship
MARSS and Federal Fleet Services announced the full NiDAR C2 and CUAS will be installed on Asterix, a Combat Support ...
Four Potential Future Tactical VTOL Systems Advance in Quest for Modernization
A seven-week Base Period concluded May 24 with “agreement option 1” awards to four Project Agreement Holders for the Army's ...
Times Microwave Systems Announces TF-047 Micro-Coaxial Cable
Times Microwave Systems, the preeminent brand in innovative RF and microwave interconnect assemblies, cables, and connectors, introduces its new TF-047 ...
Army Selects Northrop Grumman, Shield AI for Future Tactical UAS Prototype
Northrop Grumman, teamed with Shield AI, has been chosen by the U.S. Army to participate in the Future Tactical Unmanned ...
Industry Trends Observed at 2023 XPONENTIAL Show
AUVSI wrapped its 2023 XPONENTIAL convention in Denver last week, bringing together thousands of attendees and hundreds of companies to ...
BRINC Aims Lemur 2 and BRINC Ball at Police, SWAT
Giving new meaning to the term “blue UAS,” Seattle-based BRINC is highlighting its new Lemur 2 small UAS at AUVSI's ...
Trimble Launches RTX for Drone Package Delivery
Provides Integrators with Hardware and Software as a Service for Unparalleled Accuracy and Performance Trimble announced today the Trimble PX-1 ...
A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone
A2Z Drone Delivery Inc. has released its new flagship delivery drone, the RDSX Pelican ...
D-Fend Solution’s Software Release Brings New Capability
A D-Fend Solutions system shown preparing to defend a baseball stadium. Image courtesy of D-Fend Solutions. RA'ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, ...
Stratom to Showcase Autonomous Pallet Loader at XPONENTIAL
Stratom plans to display an autonomous pallet loader and showcase a robotic refueler at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL ...
Zelim Selects Sea Machines SM300 Autonomy for Unmanned Search and Rescue Vessel
Scottish search and rescue company Zelim has developed the Guardian class of fast rescue craft, controlled by Sea Machines Robotics’ ...
Teledyne’s Thermal by FLIR Expands With US Drone Makers BRINC and Teal
Teledyne FLIR announced continued momentum within its Thermal by FLIR program for SUAS with the integration of its Hadron 640R ...
Red Cat Launches Teal 2 Night-Operations SUAS at AAAA Summit
Red Cat Holdings Inc. officially launched its new military-grade sUAS, the Teal 2, at the 2023 AAAA Army Aviation Missions ...
Regulus Puts a Ring on Rogue UAS
C-UAS Ring variants from Regulus Cyber are being deployed in air, ground and sea environments ...
Kea Aerospace Launches Solar-Powered Stratospheric Aircraft
The "Kea Atmos Mk 1" uncrewed aircraft has been designed to be used for stratospheric flight testing. It has a ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Learner: Jack Elston
Jack Elston, President and CEO, Black Swift Technologies When Jack Elston started Black Swift Technologies in 2011, he’d already been ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Integrator: Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil
Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil, CEO, Microdrones "I really believe in collaboration, bringing a different point of view, perspective, expertise,” Microdrones CEO Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil said ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Motivator: Miguel Amor
Miguel Amor, Chief Marketing Officer, Hexagon's Autonomy & Positioning division "On paper, collaboration appears simple: a group of people working ...
