News & Analysis

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, ...
CCA Moves Force Multiplication & Affordable Mass Closer to Reality
Air, Military

CCA Moves Force Multiplication & Affordable Mass Closer to Reality

On August 27th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ (GA-ASI) uncrewed YFQ-42A rose above a runway at an undisclosed California location, marking ...
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 ...
Europe Developing New Autonomous Systems for Sea and Air Defense

Europe Developing New Autonomous Systems for Sea and Air Defense

Europe is accelerating investment in autonomous sea and air defense systems as seabed sabotage, contested skies, and rising geopolitical tensions ...
Transforming Squad Leaders with sUAS - What Will It Take?
Air, Military

Transforming Squad Leaders with sUAS – What Will It Take?

As modern battlefields shift to dispersed, tech-driven fights, squad leaders need organic sUAS—American-made, secure, and sustainable—plus updated doctrine, realistic training, ...
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 ...
Drone Disruptions at Brussels Airport & Military Base Underscore Need for European C-UAS
Air, Cyber, Military

Drone Disruptions at Brussels Airport & Military Base Underscore Need for European C-UAS

Unauthorized drone activity prompted a major disruption at Brussels Airport on 4 November. Flights were temporarily suspended after multiple drones ...
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 ...
Ascent Advances All-Weather Autonomy with Arete’s AIMS Sensor
Air, Military

Ascent Advances All-Weather Autonomy with Arete’s AIMS Sensor

For defense medics and first responders, the only acceptable launch window is now.  Image: Ascent AeroSystems / Arete This case ...
AUSA 2025:  Assured PNT, Launch Effects, Autonomy
Air, Cyber, Land, Military

AUSA 2025: Assured PNT, Launch Effects, Autonomy

AUSA 2025 crystallized two imperatives: harden navigation with layered Assured PNT and push effects forward with modular unmanned systems that ...
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: ...
Shield AI Develops X-BAT Vertical Takeoff Drone

Shield AI Develops X-BAT Vertical Takeoff Drone

Shield AI unveiled last week its development of a new X-BAT aircraft that may be the most unconventional concept of ...