Vance Air Force Base student pilots participated in a week of night flying from June 3-6, 2019 to familiarize themselves with flying and landing during night operations. Students from all three pilot training aircraft participated in the week long training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)

Op-Ed: The Role of ADS-B in Preventing Mid-Air Collisions

Editor’s Note: Christian Ramsey, uAvionix Chief Commercial Officer, provides context on existing technological safeguards that can help prevent aircraft collisions…

Hitec Releases DBX961WP Steel Gear Actuator

Hitec Releases DBX961WP Steel Gear Actuator

Engineered with hardened steel gears, dual ball bearings and a rugged aluminum alloy case, the DBX961WP with a bearing-supported robot ...
Sikorsky Successfully Flies Rotor Blown Wing UAS In Helicopter And Airplane Modes

Sikorsky Successfully Flies Rotor Blown Wing UAS In Helicopter And Airplane Modes

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown wing’ uncrewed ...
Saildrone Begins First Unmanned Survey of Florida’s Coastal Waters 

Saildrone Begins First Unmanned Survey of Florida’s Coastal Waters 

Two Saildrone Voyager USVs have launched for the first time from St. Petersburg to map Florida’s coastal waters, supporting coastal ...
SightLine Applications Acquires Athena AI to Advance Autonomy Capabilities

SightLine Applications Acquires Athena AI to Advance Autonomy Capabilities

SightLine Applications, a developer of video processing software for autonomous and uncrewed systems has announced the acquisition of Athena AI, ...
Ultra Motion: Actuators Driving Autonomy Across Air, Sea and Space

Ultra Motion: Actuators Driving Autonomy Across Air, Sea and Space

Ultra Motion’s advanced actuators deliver precision control in extreme environments. Their innovative solutions enhance reliability, efficiency and performance in autonomous ...
Bridging International Perspectives in Innovative Air Mobility

Bridging International Perspectives in Innovative Air Mobility

AUVSI recently launched XPONENTIAL in Europe, hosted by leading trade fair organizer Messe Düsseldorf. To kick off the programming, I ...
Shield AI Raises $240M to Scale Hivemind Enterprise Developer Platform

Shield AI Raises $240M to Scale Hivemind Enterprise Developer Platform

Shield AI, a deep-tech company building autonomy software products and defense aircraft, has announced it has raised $240 million. The ...
DARPA Launches NOMARS: No Manning Required Ship

DARPA Launches NOMARS: No Manning Required Ship

The No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program has built a ship designed to operate autonomously for long durations at sea ...
Unlocking True Autonomy: Dynamic Neural Networks
Air, Cyber

Unlocking True Autonomy: Dynamic Neural Networks

To understand how dynamic neural networks function and why they matter for the future of autonomy, Inside Unmanned Systems spoke ...
Innovation Vanguard Awards: Celebrating the Best in Our Industry

Innovation Vanguard Awards: Celebrating the Best in Our Industry

Autonomous Media Publisher Richard Fischer discusses the inspiration behind the new Innovation Vanguard Awards and why now is the perfect ...
Hitec Introduces the DB951WP Servo Actuator

Hitec Introduces the DB951WP Servo Actuator

The DB951WP is a high-speed, ultra torque, all metal gear waterproof servo actuator. Image: Hitec Featuring a torsionally rigid design ...
Beyond the Buzz: Addressing the Realities of Drone Sightings with Advanced C-UAS Solutions

Beyond the Buzz: Addressing the Realities of Drone Sightings with Advanced C-UAS Solutions

Editor’s Note: As attention has increased regarding aircraft activity in the eastern U.S., Inside Unmanned Systems will be providing substantive ...
Trainspotting: UAS in Railway Monitoring and Safety
Air, FAA

Trainspotting: UAS in Railway Monitoring and Safety

Drone programs in the U.S. and Europe are enhancing railway monitoring, improving efficiency and preventing accidents through advanced aerial surveillance ...
uAvionix Casia G Now Detects Aircraft at Night, Enabling 24/7 BVLOS Operations

uAvionix Casia G Now Detects Aircraft at Night, Enabling 24/7 BVLOS Operations

uAvionix, a provider of aviation technology for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), today announced the launch of Casia G Release 4.0, ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers Merging Support Information System for Autonomous Trucks

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers Merging Support Information System for Autonomous Trucks

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (MHI-MS), will participate in Japan’s first trial project ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers Merging Support Information System for Autonomous Trucks

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers Merging Support Information System for Autonomous Trucks

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (MHI-MS), will participate in Japan’s first trial project ...
Lockheed Martin Unveils Scalable Counter-UAS Solution

Lockheed Martin Unveils Scalable Counter-UAS Solution

As the threat of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) continues to evolve, Lockheed Martin is demonstrating a new approach to ...
DroneDeploy and GEODNET Foundation Announce Partnership to Provide Enterprise RTK Services for Drone-based Reality Capture

DroneDeploy and GEODNET Foundation Announce Partnership to Provide Enterprise RTK Services for Drone-based Reality Capture

DroneDeploy, an aerial and ground reality capture and robotics platform, has announced the signing of a partnership agreement with the GEODNET ...
HEIGHT Technologies and Auterion Announce Collaboration to Advance ISR Drone Technology and Interoperability

HEIGHT Technologies and Auterion Announce Collaboration to Advance ISR Drone Technology and Interoperability

HEIGHT Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) drones, better known as the “Martlet Family Of ...
TEKEVER Partners with IMSAR to Advance Radar Technologies and Data Processing Solutions

TEKEVER Partners with IMSAR to Advance Radar Technologies and Data Processing Solutions

TEKEVER, a European provider of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has announced a two-year partnership agreement with IMSAR, a US-based company ...
Milrem Robotics Debuts HAVOC Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) at IDEX 2025

Milrem Robotics Debuts HAVOC Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) at IDEX 2025

Milrem Robotics, an Estonian robotics and autonomous systems developer, launched its 8×8 Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) at IDEX 2025. The ...
EDGE Launches ANAVIA HT-750 UAV at IDEX 2025

EDGE Launches ANAVIA HT-750 UAV at IDEX 2025

Among several new EDGE solutions being launched in the air domain is the ANAVIA HT-750, a high-technology rotary-wing unmanned heavy-lift aircraft ...
New Platforms Added to DIU Blue UAS List

New Platforms Added to DIU Blue UAS List

After three days of flight demonstrations at the Blue UAS Challenge at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, ...
AeroVironment Unveils JUMP 20-X for Autonomous Maritime Operations

AeroVironment Unveils JUMP 20-X for Autonomous Maritime Operations

AeroVironment (AV) has announced the launch of the JUMP® 20-X, a next-generation, modular Group 3 uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed to ...
UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and Primoco UAV SE Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUT) and Swarm Capabilities

UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and Primoco UAV SE Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUT) and Swarm Capabilities

In a recent flight test campaign UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and Primoco UAV SE showcased the integration of advanced guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) technologies with ...
Beyond the Last Mile: Zipline's Zero-Emission Solution to Urban Delivery
Air, Business News

Beyond the Last Mile: Zipline’s Zero-Emission Solution to Urban Delivery

Drone delivery is on the cusp of reshaping the logistics landscape by significantly reducing emissions and eliminating unnecessary packaging waste ...
AWSAC 2025: Bringing Together Army Security Assistance Enterprise (ASAE) and U.S. Industry

AWSAC 2025: Bringing Together Army Security Assistance Enterprise (ASAE) and U.S. Industry

The upcoming Army Worldwide Security Assistance Conference (AWSAC), March 5-7 in Crystal Springs, VA, will bring together members of the ...
Heven Launches the Raider Hydrogen-Powered Drone

Heven Launches the Raider Hydrogen-Powered Drone

Heven, a producer of hydrogen-powered drones, has announced the debut of its Raider platform. The platform is designed to provide ...
NUAIR Defense Launches, Delivering Solutions to Accelerate Defense Readiness

NUAIR Defense Launches, Delivering Solutions to Accelerate Defense Readiness

NUAIR has announced the launch of NUAIR Defense, a purpose-built hub designed to take the friction out of verifying, validating, ...
L3Harris Launches New Technology to Control Autonomous Swarms

L3Harris Launches New Technology to Control Autonomous Swarms

L3Harris Technologies has introduced AMORPHOUS, its new software that features a single user interface to operate thousands of autonomous assets ...
NASA Taps Advanced Aircraft Co. to Develop Tilt-Wing UAS

NASA Taps Advanced Aircraft Co. to Develop Tilt-Wing UAS

Advanced Aircraft Co. announced NASA awarded it a contract to design and build tilt-wing prototype uncrewed aerial vehicles to agency ...
Skydio’s “Dock Day”: Integration to Build On
Air, Product News

Skydio’s “Dock Day”: Integration to Build On

Skydio’s recent “Dock Day” made a case for its fully autonomous and remotely operated drone system being the next step ...
SEA-KIT International Reports First USV Export Deal

SEA-KIT International Reports First USV Export Deal

SEA-KIT International announced its first uncrewed surface vessel export sale to Connecticut-based ThayerMahan, which provides autonomous maritime systems to government, ...
EMCORE Introduces New TAC-450 IMUs Integrated with PIC Technology, Tactical-grade Gyros, and Inertial-grade Accelerometers

EMCORE Introduces New TAC-450 IMUs Integrated with PIC Technology, Tactical-grade Gyros, and Inertial-grade Accelerometers

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense, communications, and sensing markets, announced ...
Search and Rescue Technology Set for Commercialization with £2.M Investment

Search and Rescue Technology Set for Commercialization with £2.M Investment

Zelim, an Edinburgh-based start-up pioneering unmanned search and rescue systems, including the world's first remotely operated rescue vessel, has secured ...
Northrop Grumman Unveils B-21 Raider, Intended for Manned-Unmanned Teaming
Air, Military, Product News

Northrop Grumman Unveils B-21 Raider, Intended for Manned-Unmanned Teaming

Northrop Grumman held a ceremony in Palmdale, California, to unveil the B-21 Raider, a stealth bomber intended to be augmented ...
UAvionix Awarded FAA Contract to Demo C-Band Frequency Assignment Manager for Multiple UAS

UAvionix Awarded FAA Contract to Demo C-Band Frequency Assignment Manager for Multiple UAS

UAvionix has won a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration for multiple end-to-end demonstrations of a Frequency Assignment Manager ...
Amazon Announces Smaller, Quieter, More Capable Delivery Drone

Amazon Announces Smaller, Quieter, More Capable Delivery Drone

Delivery giant Amazon has announced a new delivery drone, one it says is smaller, lighter and quieter than the model ...
Riegl Adds VUX-160-23 to a Formidable Scanner Lineup
Air, Product News

Riegl Adds VUX-160-23 to a Formidable Scanner Lineup

My-Linh Truong shows off the new Riegl VUX-160-23 at InterGEO 2022. The recently announced VUX-160-23 is a lightweight LiDAR module ...
Autonomy, Collaboration Take Center Stage at Dimensions+ Conference
Air, Events, Land, Product News

Autonomy, Collaboration Take Center Stage at Dimensions+ Conference

Trimble kicked off its first Dimensions+ conference in four years by rolling out new cloud-based automation and collaboration platforms ...
Skyfire Teams with Textron Systems to Improve Public Safety
Air, Product News

Skyfire Teams with Textron Systems to Improve Public Safety

A screen shot of a SeeGEO showing a post-fire investigation. Credit: Skyfire Skyfire, a public safety unmanned aircraft consulting company ...
Latvia’s 5G Defense Testbed Receives New Networks from Nokia, Ericsson

Latvia’s 5G Defense Testbed Receives New Networks from Nokia, Ericsson

Nokia and Ericsson have added their 5G networks to Europe’s first 5G defense testbed, in Latvia, making it possible to ...
VOTIX Software Allows AviSight to Achieve FAA Approval for BVLOS Drone Inspections

VOTIX Software Allows AviSight to Achieve FAA Approval for BVLOS Drone Inspections

VOTIX announced Nov. 1 that its software platform has been selected by AviSight for inspections at Shell USA Inc. facilities ...
SkySafe Announces Cloud-Based Counter UAS System

SkySafe Announces Cloud-Based Counter UAS System

SkySafe announced Nov. 1 that its cloud-based counter-drone technology is now detecting drone flights in Canada under a partnership with ...
TOPODRONE Advances Airborne Bathymetric Surveying with AQUAMAPPER Launch at INTERGEO 2022

TOPODRONE Advances Airborne Bathymetric Surveying with AQUAMAPPER Launch at INTERGEO 2022

TOPODRONE, a Swiss based designer and manufacturer of high-precision LiDAR equipment for installation on drones, vehicles and backpacks, launches AQUAMAPPER, ...
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