Former Air Force Base Becomes UAS Proving Ground: Inside the UAS Center and Norton Test Range at San Bernardino International Airport
By: Dawn Zoldi Some of the most consequential stories in aviation happen at places most people have never heard of. The San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) is one of those…
Kratos Tracks Iran’s Satellite Jamming Campaign and the Oil Smuggling Network Behind It
By: Dawn Zoldi As Tehran continues to wage an active electronic warfare (EW) campaign against U.S. and Israeli drone and missile operations, Kratos Defense is tracking it every step of…
Israel’s AI-Enhanced Dolphin Submarines Play Strategic Role in Multi-Front War
The Israeli Navy’s German-built Dolphin-type submarines are playing a critical strategic role in Israel’s ongoing multi-front war, serving as a key deterrent against Iran and its proxies. These advanced diesel-electric…
Echodyne Named as Radar System for Trust Automation’s $490M Air Force Counter-UAS Engineering Contract
Kirkland, WA, April 20, 2026 – Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announces its inclusion as a primary radar system within Trust Automation’s Small-Unmanned Air Defense System (SUADS) Counter-UAS platform, to be…
Ondas and Heidelberg Launch ONBERG Autonomous Systems Joint Venture with Official Launch and Live Demonstration Event in Germany
Initial Focus on Germany and Ukraine, with Plans to Expand Sales, Manufacturing, and Deployment Across Europe WEST PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / April 15, 2026 / Ondas Inc.(NASDAQ:ONDS) (“Ondas” or the…
U.S. Space Force Delivers Final GPS III to Orbit, Advancing its Most Resilient Constellation for Military, Civil Capabilities
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. & COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) and Combat Forces Command (CFC) successfully delivered the Global Positioning System (GPS) III-8 (Space…
Lockheed Martin’s Ignite: The Team Racing to Find Life in the Stars and Win the Next War
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium Media Breakfast on April 13 in Colorado Springs, Lockheed Martin’s space division offered a rare look inside Ignite, its internal research and…
U.S. Navy Investigates Loss of $220M MQ-4C Triton Drone Over Persian Gulf — EW Attack by Iranian-Operated Systems Suspected
The U.S. Navy is investigating the April 9, 2026 loss of an MQ-4C Triton high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned surveillance drone over the Persian Gulf. Israeli sources suggest the $220 million…
Protecting Canada’s Biggest Stages: RF-Cyber Counter-Drone Steals the Show
By: Dawn Zoldi When 19,000 fans streamed into Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre for the 55th Annual JUNO Awards this March, the spectacle everyone noticed was on the stage, but the real…
Flying in the Middle of Somewhere: Cape May County Puts New Jersey on the Drone Map
By Dawn Zoldi When I walked up to the stage to moderate a “fireside chat” about the Cape-Atlantic UAS Test Range panel at Shore to Soar (S2S) 2026, an electric…
UAS Magazine Announces 2026 UAS Summit & Expo Dates and Call for Abstracts
Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Summit will provide a comprehensive overview of the unmanned aircraft systems industry while celebrating two decades of leadership in UAS development, deployment and technology. Grand…
NASA’s Moon Base No Longer Science Fiction; Industry Has Four Weeks to Get Ready
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium, NASA’s Moon Base Program Executive Carlos Garcia-Galan and Redwire Space President Mike Gold laid out an unambiguous vision for a permanent human…
Lockheed Martin’s Ignite: The Team Racing to Find Life in the Stars and Win the Next War
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium Media Breakfast on April 13 in Colorado Springs, Lockheed Martin’s space division offered a rare look inside Ignite, its internal research and…
ALL POINTS SECURES NASA PROPERTY FOR SPACECRAFT PROCESSING FACILITIES
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL: All Points Logistics, LLC (All Points) has signed an exclusive agreement with NASA to lease 64 acres at Kennedy Space Center for development of a new, multi-user spacecraft processing and logistics complex designed…
Voyager Selected by NASA for Seventh Private Astronaut Mission
DENVER–April 15, 2026–Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has signed an order with NASA for the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station, launching no earlier than 2028. “This award…
The Gulf’s Autonomous Future: The Conflicts, Ambition and Technology Impacting Defence Across the GCC
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. and Middle East The Gulf has discovered that its future security will not be decided in conference rooms, but in machine-speed engagements…
Former Air Force Base Becomes UAS Proving Ground: Inside the UAS Center and Norton Test Range at San Bernardino International Airport
By: Dawn Zoldi Some of the most consequential stories in aviation happen at places most people have never heard of. The San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) is one of those…
OpEd – Three Pillars for Safe Public Safety Operations with Drone Deliveries and Air Taxis
By: Jason Day For more than a decade, I’ve watched public safety agencies across the United States embrace unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as a force multiplier that cuts response times,…
Force Multiplier: How LiveU Delivers Resilient Live Video for Public Safety Teams
By: Dawn Zoldi LiveU turns fragmented feeds from drones, vehicles and body‑worn devices into a single, resilient, real‑time picture for public safety teams, even when networks are congested, degraded or…
No Blind Spots: Building Real Airspace Awareness for Low‑Altitude Fliers
Airspace has increasingly become a contested, crowded and data-rich domain where public safety, national security and commercial opportunity all converge. For the panelists gathered at the recent DRONERESPONDERS NACON, a…
Orchestrating Airspace Assurance: AI–Cyber Fusion Keeps Drones and Daily Life Moving
By: Dawn Zoldi Most discussions about uncrewed aircraft protection still dwell on individual tools, such as a sensor here, a jammer there with artificial intelligence (AI) somewhere in the mix…
ASSUREd Safe: Building Trustworthy Drone Programs for High‑Stakes Public Safety Missions
By: Dawn Zoldi When lives and communities are on the line, “good enough” UAS training is not really good enough. ASSUREd Safe, the public safety training arm of the FAA’s…
BRINC Unveils Guardian, Launching the Next Era of Drone as First Responder
Guardian delivers 24/7 operations, unmatched imaging, Starlink connectivity, and more to help public safety agencies respond to 911 calls and save lives. SEATTLE, WA – March 24, 2026 – BRINC,…
FAA Sharpens Drone Rules for First Responders With New BVLOS, SGI and Stadium Tools
By: Dawn Zoldi The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been busy updating the rules for how police, fire and emergency management agencies fly drones. At the DRONERESPONDERS NACON, FAA leaders…
Flying in the Middle of Somewhere: Cape May County Puts New Jersey on the Drone Map
By Dawn Zoldi When I walked up to the stage to moderate a “fireside chat” about the Cape-Atlantic UAS Test Range panel at Shore to Soar (S2S) 2026, an electric…
The Most Important FAA Drone Safety Day Yet; The Future of the NAS at Stake
By Juan B. Plaza, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operational Safety Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) holds its fifth consecutive Drone Safety Day (DSD). This year, the stakes are higher…
UAS Magazine Announces 2026 UAS Summit & Expo Dates and Call for Abstracts
Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Summit will provide a comprehensive overview of the unmanned aircraft systems industry while celebrating two decades of leadership in UAS development, deployment and technology. Grand…
Former Air Force Base Becomes UAS Proving Ground: Inside the UAS Center and Norton Test Range at San Bernardino International Airport
By: Dawn Zoldi Some of the most consequential stories in aviation happen at places most people have never heard of. The San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) is one of those…
Speedbird Aero Drones Debut in New York City as Skyports and Port Authority Launch Yearlong Cargo Drone Trial Between Manhattan and Brooklyn
New York, April 23, 2026 – Speedbird Aero, a global leader in unmanned aerial logistics, is proud to announce its role as the aircraft partner in a major drone delivery…
NASA’s Moon Base No Longer Science Fiction; Industry Has Four Weeks to Get Ready
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium, NASA’s Moon Base Program Executive Carlos Garcia-Galan and Redwire Space President Mike Gold laid out an unambiguous vision for a permanent human…
ANELLO Photonics Selected for Resilient Navigation on BlackSea Technologies’ Chaser USV Platforms
SANTA CLARA, CA., April 20, 2026 – ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, and BlackSea Technologies…
Ondas and Heidelberg Launch ONBERG Autonomous Systems Joint Venture with Official Launch and Live Demonstration Event in Germany
Initial Focus on Germany and Ukraine, with Plans to Expand Sales, Manufacturing, and Deployment Across Europe WEST PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / April 15, 2026 / Ondas Inc.(NASDAQ:ONDS) (“Ondas” or the…
Protecting Canada’s Biggest Stages: RF-Cyber Counter-Drone Steals the Show
By: Dawn Zoldi When 19,000 fans streamed into Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre for the 55th Annual JUNO Awards this March, the spectacle everyone noticed was on the stage, but the real…
UNIVITY Raises €27 Million to Build a Leading High-Speed Space-Based Internet Infrastructure for Telecom Operators
UNIVITY Raises €27 Million to Build Sovereign VLEO 5G Space Infrastructure for Telecom Operators UNIVITY, the global operator of space-based connectivity services, has closed a €27 million funding round with…
Beyond Line of Sight, Beyond One-Off Flights: How SRS Scales Utility Inspections
By: Dawn Zoldi Sentinel Robotic Solutions (SRS) doesn’t treat utility inspections as a one-off drone service. It has built a BVLOS-enabled inspection and training ecosystem designed to scale across some…
ExLabs Pushes Private Sector Role in Planetary Defense as Apophis Asteroid Approaches Earth
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 9, 2026) — ExLabs, a commercial deep-space exploration company, will highlight the growing role of private companies in planetary defense ahead of asteroid Apophis’ historic 2029…
Protecting the Skies: Europe’s Layered Approach to Counter-UAS
Across Europe, the skies have become increasingly complex. Drones now share what was once the exclusive domain of commercial aviation and military operations. From infrastructure inspection and agriculture to emergency…
Drones Over There, Headed Over Here? Operation Spider Web, Baghdad’s FPV Strike and Barksdale’s Swarms Should Shake the U.S. Awake
From Ukraine’s deep‑strike “Operation Spider Web” to Iran‑backed FPV drones blowing up U.S. assets around Baghdad, the modern drone threat has become normalized across Eurasia in just a few years….
From Classroom to Cornfield: Building Skills for Precision Agriculture
By Bronwyn Morgan, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Training and Education Once a novelty, highly automated and autonomous drones have become indispensable tools in modern farming. From pinpoint crop surveillance to…
Orchestrating Airspace Assurance: AI–Cyber Fusion Keeps Drones and Daily Life Moving
By: Dawn Zoldi Most discussions about uncrewed aircraft protection still dwell on individual tools, such as a sensor here, a jammer there with artificial intelligence (AI) somewhere in the mix…
The Most Important FAA Drone Safety Day Yet; The Future of the NAS at Stake
By Juan B. Plaza, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operational Safety Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) holds its fifth consecutive Drone Safety Day (DSD). This year, the stakes are higher…
From Classroom to Cornfield: Building Skills for Precision Agriculture
By Bronwyn Morgan, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Training and Education Once a novelty, highly automated and autonomous drones have become indispensable tools in modern farming. From pinpoint crop surveillance to…
ASSUREd Safe: Building Trustworthy Drone Programs for High‑Stakes Public Safety Missions
By: Dawn Zoldi When lives and communities are on the line, “good enough” UAS training is not really good enough. ASSUREd Safe, the public safety training arm of the FAA’s…
From Purdue to Colorado: How the Data Mine of the Rockies Is Training an AI-Ready Space and Defense Workforce
By Samantha Louque, VT-ARC* – Autonomy Global Media Partner Companies and government teams depend on a tech-savvy workforce as the world becomes increasingly data-driven, from the factory floor to the…
Finding Lost Civilizations with Lidar: How Terra Incognita and Stitch3D Turned NASA Data into 3D Evidence in the Amazon
By: Dawn Zoldi and Dahlia Kopycienski Using NASA lidar, lean processing workflows and browser‑based 3D visualization, Terra Incognita Research Institute and Stitch3D have outlined a practical way to find, and…
Pittsburgh’s Next Act: GeoAI, Robotics and Autonomous Operations
GeoAI and robotics have been rewriting how the world sees, maps and manages physical infrastructure. Pittsburgh has positioned itself as one of the places where that transformation has already become…
OpEd – Military Aviation DNA: Why It Matters in Commercial Autonomy
By: Michelle Duquette, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operations When you see veteran aviation maintainers entering the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector, you’re watching the industry mature. They bring a fundamental…
Drones, Data and Digital Twins: The Spatial Intelligence Rewiring Airports and Ports
By: Dahlia Kopycienski At the world’s busiest gateways, behind the scenes, high‑fidelity geospatial data, live sensor feeds and drone‑enabled 3D models have evolved airports and ports into deeply digital operating…
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UAS Magazine Announces 2026 UAS Summit & Expo Dates and Call for Abstracts
Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Summit will provide a comprehensive overview of the unmanned aircraft systems industry while celebrating two decades of leadership in UAS development, deployment and technology. Grand…
Speedbird Aero Drones Debut in New York City as Skyports and Port Authority Launch Yearlong Cargo Drone Trial Between Manhattan and Brooklyn
New York, April 23, 2026 – Speedbird Aero, a global leader in unmanned aerial logistics, is proud to announce its role as the aircraft partner in a major drone delivery…
UNIVITY Raises €27 Million to Build a Leading High-Speed Space-Based Internet Infrastructure for Telecom Operators
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Jose Martin, CEO, Martin Solutions, LLC & Andrew Clare, CEO, Elroy Air | Dawn of Autonomy | Episode 119
On this week’s episode of Dawn of Autonomy, our “UTM and Infrastructure” month, sponsored by Airspace Link, touches down on the Gulf Coast with guests Jose Martin, Founder and CEO…
FlyFreely: Airspace Management for Asset and Site Owners with Complex UAS Programs
This live session dives into how asset and site owners with complex drone operations can actually manage their airspace, using FlyFreely’s platform to handle flight approvals, compliance, and risk across…
Trevor Woods, Northern Plains UAS Test Site | Dawn of Autonomy | Episode 118
This week on Dawn of Autonomy, we continue our “UTM and Infrastructure” month, sponsored by Airspace Link, with Trevor Woods from the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, home of North…