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The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) enables leadership in New Mexico in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems, by supporting a unique collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the University of New Mexico (UNM). This collaboration is a project that uses enhanced drones which will be able to tap on surfaces and collect information on their condition. This will enable collecting […]

Further to initial flight trials, PHASA-35®, a 35 metre wingspan solar-electric aircraft, has successfully completed critical endurance trials which saw the aircraft operate for 72 hours in a simulated environment that models the harsh stratospheric conditions in which the aircraft is designed to operate. The trials, a collaborative effort by BAE Systems, Prismatic and the […]

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced today the release of auser survey to capture how companies, organizations, and agencies use the Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Version 2.0),which was published by the ANSI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative (UASSC) in June 2020. Version 2.0 of the roadmap includes expanded content and identification of additional standardization needs not included in Version 1.0. ANSI […]

Panasonic is proud to announce the release of the brand’s first box-style LUMIX Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera DC-BGH1. Based on the Micro Four Thirds System standard, the new LUMIX BGH1 takes advantage of high mobility, an extensive interchangeable lens lineup, and even includes technologies Panasonic has acquired though the development of professional cinema cameras, […]

Los Angeles, CA (October 13, 2020): Auterion Government Solutions, the leading drone software platform for Government, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ray O. Johnson to its Board of Directors. Dr. Ray O. Johnson, the former SVP and CTO of Lockheed Martin, brings with him extensive experience in the defense industry. Currently, Ray is an active […]

Puma 3 All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft system delivers immediate tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) in maritime and land operations Customer is among the 50 allied government forces relying on AeroVironment’s innovative family of tactical unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program promotes interoperability among U.S. and allied forces for joint operations […]

Arlington, Va. – Ohio’s Department of Transportation (ODOT) has enlisted Crown Consulting Inc. (Crown) to study the impact of advanced autonomous aircraft technologies on the state’s economy. Crown with partners the University of Cincinnati and NEXA Capital Partners LLC will estimate the economic impacts of introducing and maintaining urban and regional air mobility (URAM) and unmanned […]

Development Drone Built in USA Develop PX4 autonomous flight quickly with this open and fully programmable bind and fly development drone. This is the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Development Drone you have been looking for! Our m500 drone is built from the popular s500 hobby kit and includes a Snapdragon™-based VOXL Flight Deck configured and tested for GPS-based autonomous flight and indoor GPS-denied […]

One of the objectives of this H2020 project, supervised by the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA), is to show the benefits of Galileo and EGNOS in drone operations. The exercises were conducted in July at ATLAS test flight centre in Villacarrillo (Jaén, Spain) and will be completed with urban flights in Seville in […]

Unmanned Aerial System simulation tools offer a cost-effective way for end-users to learn how to operate their Unmanned Aerial Systems. However, most UAS suppliers do not offer a simulator option for their clients, in part because of the high cost of developing, distributing and maintaining such software. SIMNET is a new cloud-based simulation service which […]

The new AsteRx-m3 family features state-of-the-art GPS/GNSS OEM boards optimized for power consumption and ease of integration Leuven, Belgium – October 12, 2020 – Septentrio, a leader in high precision GNSS positioning solutions, announced today an expansion of its GPS/GNSS* OEM portfolio with AsteRx-m3 product family. AsteRx-m3 receivers target various use cases and offer flexibility and affordability with no compromises of performance. They feature the lowest power consumption on the market, allowing longer operation times. Their new easy-to-integrate design ensures short set-up times and faster time-to-market. “With the AsteRx-m3 product family, Septentrio redefines state-of-the-art […]

Iprosurv, the UK’s leading aerial survey, inspection and mapping provider, has entered into a partnership with US-based agricultural surveying specialists, Sentera, in a move that will change the way agricultural risks are managed and insured in the UK. The deal sees the full Sentera suite of sensors, software and analytics made available to Iprosurv’s existing […]

Massive reductions in emplacement, mission launch time and overall footprint size are in the works for Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), thanks to new laptop-based interface called Scalable Command & Control (SC2) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). GA-ASI recently concluded a series of flight tests using the new SC2 […]

Time to get your EO 12866 meeting scheduled up with the OMB and ask yourquestions about Remote Identification Rulemaking. It would appear that DJI hassomething scheduled up, how about you? Ho, Ho, Ho, I’m hearing you might even be getting all of this specialness byChristmas. If not, the FAA will throw the old OMB under […]

Jamming activity will take place 12-16 October (inclusive) affecting airspace in and around the Scottish West Coast near the Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides. The activity may affect GNSS based navigation and timing devices. Jamming may impact systems up to 40,000FT AMSL within a radius of up to 90NM of N 57° 28.34’, W 005° 52.31 GPS […]

Dronedesk is a bootstrapped startup established by a commercial drone operator in the UK. They developed this beautifully simple web application because they wanted to shrink theadmin burden of planning, recording and managing safe and compliant drone flights. Exeter, United Kingdom | October 12, 2020 – Dronedesk today announces the launch ofits drone operations management […]

Bigfork, Montana –– uAvionix, a pioneer in communications, navigation, and surveillance avionics for unmanned systems, today announced it has been granted a new patent critical to safe and secure integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into National Airspace Systems (NAS). U.S. Patent 10,733,894, titled “Direct-Broadcast Remote Identification (RID) Device for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)” addresses […]

Anduril is a defense technology company, bringing Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We’ve assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis […]

Halfway House, Gauteng 1692Full-time, PermanentSalary: R30,000.00 to R50,000.00 /month LightWare, is the global leader in microLiDARs. Our customers include the leading companies in the UAV, UGV and IoT markets across the world. We are a dynamic and innovative team that is customer-obsessed. MAIN PURPOSE: Creation, maintenance and delivery of all technical content and sales / […]

FoxFury Lighting Solutions (FoxFury) officially announces the addition of new and improved Rugo drone mounts for use on DJI Matrice and Inspire 2 drones. These new mounts allow the waterproof, rechargeable Rugo lights to be used in low light inspections and meet global night flight requirements (including FAR 107.29) for anti-collision lighting. The Rugo features […]

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), also known as drones, are increasingly being employed as data collection platforms to support an array of applications that span disciplines and industries, including planning, natural resource management, marketing, structural inspection, agricultural production, permitting, STEM education, and public safety. The Virginia Geospatial Extension Program will host a series of three-day introductory-level Mapping […]

Australian drone-powered health logistics firm, Swoop Aero, has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner in The Australian Business Awards 2020 for Product Innovation. The Australian Business Awards (ABA) acknowledges and honours Swoop Aero’s achievements both nationally and internationally recognising our world-class business initiatives and innovation . Eric Peck, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of […]

Skyward, A Verizon company, and ​Parrot​, the leading European drone group, have announced their partnership to deliver Parrot ANAFI drones along with Skyward drone program management, flight log sync, and training to U.S. enterprises. In particular, the new ANAFI USA drone, which is one of just five drones approved for government use by the Department of […]

Texo Group’s sister company Texo DSI has successfully pioneered a new unmanned inspection method on a major UK North Sea FPSO, delivering significant safety, time and cost saving benefits. Working in collaboration with vessel owner Bumi Armada and classification society DNV GL, Texo used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect a vast oil storage […]

On September 2, 2020, was indicted by a grand jury in the Western District of Texas for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, Oneal, owner of Wildly Creative Marketing, agreed to perform a drone show at SeaWorld, San Antonio, Texas. He allegedly provided SeaWorld with falsified and/or fraudulently used documents, including […]

Raytheon Australia’s tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) solution for the Australian Army’s LAND 129 Phase 3 program harnesses our 20-year pedigree as an experienced, multi-domain prime systems integrator across the ADF. CREATING LOCAL JOBS Together, our Australian team will enable 150 Australian jobs dedicated to manufacture, assemble, integrate, deliver and sustain the ADF’s new tactical […]

Unmanned Safety Institute’s offerings Include standardization, maintenance, and delivery of online and onsite education and training programs of instruction. ORLANDO, Fla. (October 8, 2020) – Unmanned Safety Institute (USI), the leading aviation-based safety training and industry certification provider for unmanned operations, has been contracted by Censys Technologies (Censys) to perform the training and education services associated with […]

Jointly developed communications payload enables video call during Sunglider’s stratospheric test flight TOKYO / MOUNTAIN VIEW – SoftBank Corp.’s HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”) and Alphabet’s Loon LLC (“Loon”) today announced they successfully tested their jointly developed communications payload in the stratosphere on HAPSMobile’s “Sunglider,” a solar-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Taking place during Sunglider’s first stratospheric test flight […]

Toronto, Ontario: Industrial SkyWorks Inc. has signed a multi-year contract to provide artificial intelligence software and data solutions for Ontario Power Generation (OPG)’s remote, drone-based inspections program. The groundbreaking agreement will leverage both on-premise and cloud-based implementations of Industrial SkyWorks’ Qii.AI data analytics platform and will enable OPG to develop its own, proprietary AI capability […]

Secretary’s Order 3379 (Order) temporarily grounded the Department of the Interior (Department) drone or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) effect for non-emergency operations in order to better the cybersecurity and supply of American technology of UAS procured for use and operation. Drone operation for emergency purposes, such as fighting wildland fires, measures to prevent an anticipated […]

Milestone achieved approximately three years after development began HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) and minority-owned by AeroVironment, Inc. (“AeroVironment,” NASDAQ: AVAV), today announced that an altitude of 62,500 feet (approximately 19 kilometers) was reached during the fifth test flight for “Sunglider,” a solar-powered unmanned aircraft system (“UAS”) designed for stratospheric […]

SpearUAV – an innovative company that develops and supplies unique UAS solutions for defense and HLS applications – is unveiling its handheld version of the Ninox 40 that was unveiled just two months ago. This revolutionary encapsulated drone system offers instant launch and provides immediate intelligence capabilities to any tactical unit, even if it is […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a $950,000,000 ceiling Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software and algorithm development in order to enable Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). This contract is part of a multiple award, […]

Israel’s GADFIN drone company has signed an investment and collaboration agreement with ENEL, the world’s largest electricity infrastructure company, through its Infralab innovation lab, to develop innovative inspection solutions and work together towards enabling survey 800,000 km of the company’s voltage lines GADFIN is also conducting urban airborne cargo deliveries for the first time in […]

She Maps have recently partnered with DroneBlocks to become an official reseller of their membership in Australia. We wanted to share with you just why we’re so excited to be working with DroneBlocks, and how they can provide value to your classroom and drone education programs. From Beginner to Expert – There’s Something for Everyone […]

Unmanned Safety Institute (USI), the leading aviation-based safety training and industry certification provider for unmanned operations, has been contracted by Able Flight, a national aviation non-profit, to provide its scholarship recipients with career oriented Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) training and education. Able Flight has been providing flight training scholarships to individuals with physical disabilities since […]

Sentient Vision Systems announced today that with the latest sale of UAV systems for a large defence customer, they have now delivered over 3,000 of their autonomous detection solutions for EO and IR full-motion video. Sentient’s solutions quickly and reliably find small, hard to see, moving objects on the ground, such as vehicles or people, […]

Major milestone achieved by UMS SKELDAR enabling an exciting future of remote flight demonstrations Europe’s leading provider of Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms, UMS SKELDAR, has successfully achieved the remote automatic flight of its V-150 Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) platform. A world’s first, this is a major milestone for both the company and […]

Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced that Chief Technology Officer Dr. William Conley has been selected as a member of the Board of Advisors for Hudson Institute’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, a leading global authority on international security issues based in Washington, […]

Kleos appoints Exclusive Agent for Equador Atlantis SIM to provide direct tactical and operational support to Kleos’ customers in Ecuador Maritime expert; Atlantis SIM deliver services for oceanography and conservation of the environment and its resources. The orbits of Kleos’ first two clusters provide strategic coverage of the South Pacific Ocean coast of Ecuador. Scouting Mission […]

Global Users Facing Restrictions on Drone Hardware or Drone Data Now Have a Complete, End-to-End Solution for Planning, Executing, and Processing Data REDLANDS, CA – October 6, 2020 – Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced two major capabilities in Site Scan for ArcGIS that will enable governments and critical infrastructure organizations to meet […]

Montreal, Canada, October 6, 2020 (NYSE: CAE; TSX: CAE) – CAE today announced that it has become carbon neutral as of September 28, 2020, proudly becoming the first Canadian aerospace company to reach this goal. The company has achieved carbon neutrality by continuing to reduce its own emissions and by making investments in projects that offset […]

Born out of the University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab, IQ Motion Control is a tech startup that delivers the ultimate drone motor module for versatility and performance. We first gained recognition in the robotics community for our Anticogging technology, and since, we have developed advanced motion control systems that allow our electric motors to achieve […]

A multi-agency task force of public safety drone teams has been supporting local agencies and residents impacted by California wildfires with high-resolution aerial imagery of damaged areas. GeoAcuity, a geospatial consulting firm, works alongside Law Enforcement UAS teams to rapidly process and build interactive maps from these critical UAS data sets. The teams have recently […]

Brendan Groves Today, just a few months after the announcement of the nationwide Tactical BVLOS waiver, we are celebrating another first-of-a-kind regulatory achievement that allows the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to fly Skydio drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) to inspect bridges with unparalleled safety and efficiency. T his waiver marks a new […]

Rebates of up to £250 for new Electronic Conspicuity (EC) devices are now available thanks to funding from the Department for Transport (DfT) aimed at encouraging more adoption of EC within the UK’s General Aviation (GA) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) communities. The CAA will distribute the funds via a rebate scheme which is open […]

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – Oct. 5, 2020: Everdrone, a global leader in autonomous drone technology, announces today that it has been approved for its first patent by the European Patent Office (EPO). Everdrone’s latest patented technology focuses on combining vision technology with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to allow drones to fly safely and accurately in low […]

RALEIGH – Drones are the N.C. Department of Transportation’s newest tool in maintaining the safety of the state’s bridges and other infrastructure. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday approved a waiver that allows NCDOT to operate Unmanned Aircraft Systems beyond visual line of sight while conducting bridge inspections. This approval is part of North Carolina’s participation […]

The RDS1 (Rapid Delivery System) offers a proprietary delivery mechanism that free-falls its tethered payload before bringing it to a gentle stop near the ground in order to limit time-on-station while accurately delivering payloads from sufficient altitude to clear ground obstacles, mitigate noise and keep recipients at a safe distance from spinning rotors. Los Angeles, […]

Commercial drone safety technology innovator Iris Automation announces its new CEO, Jon Damush, effective immediately. Co-founder Alexander Harmsen has been promoted to Chairman of the Board where he will guide strategy for the company and provide thought leadership on beyond line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations. The move reflects the continued growth at Iris Automation and the […]