AI for Loitering Weapon Systems: Israeli Uvision and Latvian Lendurai Join Forces
Israeli company Uvision, manufacturing advanced loitering weapon systems Lendurai, an Estonian defence technology company specializing in AI-enabled autonomy solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have signed a partnership agreement to…
Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 September 2026 – On September 18, Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote titled…
GeoCue Marks 20 Years by Expanding Its NDAA-Compliant Drone LiDAR Sensor Ecosystem
GeoCue turns 20 this year, and the company is celebrating the milestone the way it knows best: by adding more sensors to an ecosystem it has spent two decades building….
Lockheed Martin’s Vectis Drone Nears First Flight Ahead of AFA Air, Space, Cyber
Lockheed Martin is accelerating production of its Vectis collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) and will build four additional prototypes, the company revealed in an exclusive media roundtable, ahead of this week’s…
Embention releases upgraded Veronte KAI FCC for One-Way drones at MSPO
September 10, 2026. Embention has officially unveiled the latest iteration of the Veronte KAI, at the MSPO 2026defense exposition. Engineered specifically to address the rigorous demands of modern loitering munitions, C-UAS platforms,…
SPARC AI Launches Overwatch Positioning Network for Drones Operating Without GPS, Network Live For Ukraine
Aug. 25, 2026: SPARC AI Inc. (CSE: SPAI; OTCQB: SPAIF; Frankfurt: 5OV0) (“SPARC AI” or the “Company”) a defense technology company, today announced the launch of the Overwatch Positioning Network, a live…
At The Edge Of Security: The Quantum And AI Seismic Convergence
Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing have already collided in the security landscape and changed how governments, industry, and critical infrastructure operate. At the GBEF EDGE Security Summit, a panel…
AI in the Future of Tanks
Is the main battle tank (MBT) still valid in the new combat zone? According to Israeli experts the current design will have to undergo many changes, including the heavy use…
Robin Radar Scales U.S. Counter-Drone Mission With Marine Corps Discipline
Robin Radar continues to move fast to close a widening gap in North American airspace defense, and the person driving that expansion built his instincts for urgent problem-solving in the…
UNIFY.C2 and Squarehead Technology Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Passive, Multi-Sensor Counter-UAS Detection at Scale
DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, September 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UNIFY.C2 today announced a strategic partnership with Squarehead Technology, a global leader in advanced acoustic technology for passive drone detection and tracking. The partnership…
OpenWorks Engineering Expands Into US Market
ASHBURN, Virginia, Sept. 22, 2026 – OpenWorks Engineering, a global leader in C-UAS, air defense, and surveillance technology, today announces the launch of its United States regional headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia,…
Simplesense and Digital Force Technologies, Announce First Air Force Deployment of Counter Drone System Integrated into Installation Resilience Operations
National Harbor, MD — September 14, 2026 — Simplesense, Inc and Digital Force Technologies, LLC (DFT) today announced a $3.4M award to integrate DFT’s SeraphimOS™ sensor fusion platform into the Installation Resilience Operations Command…
DroneShield Completes Installation and Acceptance of DroneSentry-X Mk2 Under U.S. JIATF-401 Program
Warrenton, VA – 15 September 2026 – DroneShield, a global leader in advanced counter-drone technology, today announced the successful installation and acceptance of its DroneSentry-X Mk2 counter-uncrewed aircraft system (C-UAS) units on U.S….
Quantum Systems launches Maritime domain, introducing Seavex and Subvex
Quantum Systems is expanding into the maritime domain, connecting autonomous operations above and below the waterline with its existing capabilities in the air and on land. With the launch, the company…
Embention releases upgraded Veronte KAI FCC for One-Way drones at MSPO
September 10, 2026. Embention has officially unveiled the latest iteration of the Veronte KAI, at the MSPO 2026defense exposition. Engineered specifically to address the rigorous demands of modern loitering munitions, C-UAS platforms,…
Volatus Aerospace Awarded Canadian Defence Contract for Tactical ISR Uncrewed Aircraft Systems for up to 5,000 systems
Initial award includes 100 tactical ISR systems under a Government of Canada procurement framework valued at up to C$25 million MIRABEL, Québec, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Volatus Aerospace Inc….
UNIFY.C2 and Squarehead Technology Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Passive, Multi-Sensor Counter-UAS Detection at Scale
DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, September 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UNIFY.C2 today announced a strategic partnership with Squarehead Technology, a global leader in advanced acoustic technology for passive drone detection and tracking. The partnership…
When Drones Mix With Hospital Heliports: 2209 Must Account for Realities of Emergency Medical Aviation
When a helicopter air ambulance transports a critically ill or injured patient, every second counts. At hospital heliports, some of those seconds occur in one of the most demanding portions…
Inside EASA’s Plan to Simplify Europe’s Drone Rules and Speed Up Cross-Border Flights
Europe’s drone industry stands on the precipice of unlocking scaled operations without lowering safety standards. Three senior officials from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) laid out exactly how…
From Proof of Concept to Critical Infrastructure: DroneX 2026 Set to Showcase the Next Phase of Europe’s Autonomy Revolution
London, UK – 22 September 2026 – – As autonomous systems become increasingly embedded across critical infrastructure, public services, defence and industry, the distinction between commercial and sovereign capability is rapidly…
Part 108 Solves Permission; UTM Still Has to Solve Scale
The countdown to Part 108 has been underway for a while. But soon enough the drone industry will discover that winning permission to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)…
Advanced Air Mobility Institute Appoints Dean Rudolph to Board of Directors
Boston, MA. — September 17, 2026 — The Advanced Air Mobility Institute (AAMI), a nonprofit industry organization advancing the responsible commercialization of eVTOL aircraft, autonomous flight, and drone operations, today…
Drone Law in 2026: What Section 2209, NDAA Rules, and Part 108 Mean for Your Operations
Anyone who has tried to keep pace with drone law this year has probably experienced closing one browser tab on a new FAA proposal and having three more open in…
GeoAI Is Becoming the Nervous System for Robots, Panel Says at Geo Gov Summit 2026
Robots continue to multiply across factories, campuses and disaster zones. But the machines are only as smart as the maps and models feeding them. That was one of the key…
Electra Completes Groundbreaking Flights at Commercial Airport Using Helicopter-Style Instrument Procedures and Novel Take Off and Landing Areas for its Ultra Short Airplane
Flights under the FAA integration pilot program lay the groundwork for future operations for Electra’s flagship EL9 and help establish a national blueprint for AAM instrument flight networks Manassas, VA…
Advanced Air Mobility Institute Appoints Dean Rudolph to Board of Directors
Boston, MA. — September 17, 2026 — The Advanced Air Mobility Institute (AAMI), a nonprofit industry organization advancing the responsible commercialization of eVTOL aircraft, autonomous flight, and drone operations, today…
Scaling the UK’s Skies: Satellite Communication As the Cornerstone of AAM
The global aviation sector stands on the precipice of its most significant transformation in decades. Until now, the skies have been the exclusive domain of crewed, commercially scheduled or military…
Wingcopter Launches Tactical Reconnaissance Drone With Up to Six Hours of Flight Time
The Wingcopter 262 offers a tactical range of 150 kilometres and a flight time of up to six hours. The modular all-electric VTOL aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of…
OpEd: The Midair Collision Warning Systems Miss, and How to Close the Gap
A midair collision between two firefighting helicopters in Greece this August, which resulted in a tragic loss of life, exposed a critical gap in aviation safety. Current collision avoidance technology…
AirVenture Goes Vertical: Vertical Aviation Takes Center Stage At Aviation’s Largest Event
For more than seven decades, EAA AirVenture has been known as the world’s premier celebration of general aviation. In 2026, however, the event reached another milestone as vertical aviation (think:…
MD Aircraft, Wings Capital Management, and Blue Skies Aviation Sign Letter of Intent for 10 All-Electric MDA1 Aircraft to Advance Sustainable Aviation Across South Asia
Friedeburg, Germany – 6 July 2026. Wings Capital Management LLC (United Arab Emirates) and Blue Skies Aviation Solutions (Pvt) Ltd (Sri Lanka) have signed a pre-order agreement with MD Aircraft…
Electra, City of Helsinki, and Haaga-Helia University Sign MOU to Explore Direct Aviation Across the Gulf of Finland
Collaboration will study how Electra’s Ultra Short aircraft can create faster, quieter, and more direct connections between Helsinki and Tallinn, where 7.5 million people travel each year HELSINKI — August…
Tesla Has an Internal Document Called “Radar Saves Us,” NHTSA Wants to Know Why
Tesla has an internal document called “Radar Saves Us.” On July 2, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent Tesla a letter demanding to know how that document was…
German Armed Forces Commissions Quantum Systems and Daimler Truck to Develop and Test Unmanned Convoy Solutions for Military Logistics
Gilching, June 16, 2026 – As part of the Interoperable Robotic Convoy (InterRoC) research project, the German Armed Forces has commissioned Quantum Systems to develop and test unmanned convoy solutions for…
INKAS® Unveils New Ground and Air Systems, Expanding Its Integrated Defense Portfolio for Multi-Domain Operations
May 28, 2026 – Today at CANSEC 2026, INKAS® Defense and Aerospace, a Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer and systems integrator, unveils two new solutions to its product ecosystem: the INKAS® MLTV (Modular Light Tactical Vehicle) platform and the INKAS® ANURI Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). …
Karsan Reaches 330 Million Euro Turnover in 2025, 67% of which Comes from Electric Models!
Karsan, the world’s technology-oriented mobility brand in next-generation public transportation, increased its turnover by 11% to 330 million Euros in 2025. Karsan, which generated 220 million Euros of turnover from…
Embention Awarded in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Spain
February 17, 2026 Sustained growth in critical aerospace technology The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program identifies and grants visibility to the most dynamic companies within the Spanish tech ecosystem. To…
Elbit Systems Selects Lowental Hybrid for World’s First True Hybrid UAV Propulsion System
Israeli Defense Giant Signs Decade-Long Partnership for Game-Changing UAVTechnology Doron Fridman, CEO of Lowental Hybrid Rehovot, Israel – January 29, 2026 – Lowental Hybrid Ltd., a global innovator in hybridUAV…
Driving Autonomy, Defending Stability: AVs, National Security and the New AV Framework
By: Dawn Zoldi Automated vehicles (AVs) and automated driving systems (ADS) are colliding with national security concerns in ways that will shape both America’s roads and its strategic resilience. At…
Torc Robotics: Steering Truck Autonomy Into the Mainstream, From the Rubber to the Roof
By: Dawn Zoldi This year’s CES highlighted that AV truck autonomy has moved from concept to concrete business tool, and Torc Robotics aims to position itself at the center of…
Robin Radar Scales U.S. Counter-Drone Mission With Marine Corps Discipline
Robin Radar continues to move fast to close a widening gap in North American airspace defense, and the person driving that expansion built his instincts for urgent problem-solving in the…
Advanced Energy Launches Ultra-Ruggedized 160 W AC-DC Power Supply for Extreme Environments
DENVER, Sept. 24, 2026 — Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS), a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions, today launches the ruggedized DF150 160…
GCF and MSSA Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Global NTN Certification and Interoperability
New Jersey – September 24, 2026 – The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize cooperation on supporting and…
AI for Loitering Weapon Systems: Israeli Uvision and Latvian Lendurai Join Forces
Israeli company Uvision, manufacturing advanced loitering weapon systems Lendurai, an Estonian defence technology company specializing in AI-enabled autonomy solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have signed a partnership agreement to…
When Drones Mix With Hospital Heliports: 2209 Must Account for Realities of Emergency Medical Aviation
When a helicopter air ambulance transports a critically ill or injured patient, every second counts. At hospital heliports, some of those seconds occur in one of the most demanding portions…
GAO: FAA Lacks Real-Time Detection for Spoofing, Jamming Threats to Aircraft Communications
By: Dawn Zoldi A new watchdog report finds the Federal Aviation Administration has not finished the risk assessments or built the real-time monitoring tools needed to defend the national airspace…
Inside EASA’s Plan to Simplify Europe’s Drone Rules and Speed Up Cross-Border Flights
Europe’s drone industry stands on the precipice of unlocking scaled operations without lowering safety standards. Three senior officials from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) laid out exactly how…
Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 September 2026 – On September 18, Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote titled…
GeoAI Is Becoming the Nervous System for Robots, Panel Says at Geo Gov Summit 2026
Robots continue to multiply across factories, campuses and disaster zones. But the machines are only as smart as the maps and models feeding them. That was one of the key…
The MAVLink-M Integration Hackathon: Why Interoperability Is Becoming the Warfighter’s Competitive Advantage
At the MAVLink-Military Integration Hackathon, sponsored by Auterion and the DroneCode Foundation, teams from smaller companies and specialized builders integrated autonomous systems that would ordinarily take months to coordinate. Across…
Drones, Robotics and the Future of Construction
The construction industry has never been short on innovation. From GPS-guided equipment to building information modeling (BIM), each technological advance has changed how companies plan and build projects. Today, in…
When the Machine Decides: Inside the Legal Battle Over AI in Autonomous Systems
The gap between what artificial intelligence (AI) can do and what the law says it should do keeps widening. An expert “Minds and Machines” panel at Law-Tech Connect explored that…
Energy Sector Robotics Reaches Inflection Point: Scale or Stall
At the 10th Annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit (EDRS), a panel of senior asset owners from Chevron, Shell, Devon Energy, Imperial Oil, and Dow Chemical, led by Suzanne Lemieux,…
Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
The current debate around delivery of the long-delayed UK’s Defence Investment Plan has been framed in overly simplistic terms. Ships versus drones. Steel versus software. Tradition versus innovation. Defence debates…
AI Governance in Robotics: Smart Organizations Scale Autonomous Systems Without Scaling Liability
The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in robotics delivers extraordinary operational advantages. It also introduces legal and reputational risks that organizations can no longer afford to underestimate. As AI…
Defense Tech at the Crossroads: The Convergence of Drones, Airspace Safety and Grand Strategy
Three urgent questions define American defense in 2026: Can the United States build and field autonomous systems fast enough to matter? Can the nation’s airspace absorb the platforms it is…
Quantum Systems launches Maritime domain, introducing Seavex and Subvex
Quantum Systems is expanding into the maritime domain, connecting autonomous operations above and below the waterline with its existing capabilities in the air and on land. With the launch, the company…
WaiV Robotics Completes World’s First Autonomous Offshore Landing On A Moving Vessel At Night
WaiV’s two-day offshore demonstrations moved autonomous drone recovery beyond controlled environments against real maritime conditions, testing the system against darkness, changing seas, and unstable deck conditions. London, UK, September 9,…
High Interest In The Elbit Seagull
Major military conflicts may arise from seaways being blocked to commercial traffic. In the Strait of Hormuz, this is already happening. No wonder navies and defense forces across Europe, and…
Elbit UAV Carrier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of all sorts are playing a greater role in combat. This has been driven by the ongoing war in Ukraine and the recnt war with Ira….
Drone Threat To Navy Ships Brought Sales Of TYPHOON To A Peak
Aerial threats to navy ships, including armed drones, have brought the demand for the Rafael Typhoon remotely operated weapon station to a new peak. A new order from the Israeli…
Elistair and Exail Bring Persistent Aerial Surveillance to Unmanned Surface Vessels
Lyon, France – July 21st, 2026. Elistair and Exail have partnered to integrate the Khronos automated tethered DroneBox on Exail’s DriX unmanned surface vessel (USV), giving maritime operators a persistent…
Quantum Systems selected for Japan’s Counter-UAS Proof-of-Concept Program
Quantum Systems has been selected by Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) to participate in Japan’s Counter-UAS Proof-of-Concept Program, supporting the evaluation of next-generation interceptor drone capabilities. Tokyo/Japan, 15…
Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
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GCF and MSSA Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Global NTN Certification and Interoperability
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Commercial Demand for Microgravity Drug Discovery Accelerates as Exobiosphere and Voyager Add Two Missionsto the ISS
DENVER and HOUSTON – September 24, 2026 /Business Wire/ – Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) and Exobiosphere today announced two additional research campaigns aboard the International Space Station, expanding an agreement…
Terran Orbital Promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the promotion of Margherita…
Bringing GIS Indoors: Collaboration Rewires Public Safety Response
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MSSA Expands Reference Architecture to Address Complex Architectural and Service Challenges in Evolving NTN Systems
Major updates focus on regenerative payload architectures and enabling the coexistence of 5G NR and NB‑IoT services within a single satellite constellation San Ramon, Calif. — September 2, 2026 — The Mobile…
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Advanced Energy Launches Ultra-Ruggedized 160 W AC-DC Power Supply for Extreme Environments
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