Quantum Systems Secures New European Financing Package to Scale the Future of Unmanned Technologies
Quantum Systems has secured €150M financing backed by the European Investment Bank, Commerzbank, KfW and Deutsche Bank. The agreement highlights a growing commitment to ensuring that security-related innovation can be…
Roboteam Unveils Gaza‑Proven UGV Fleet, New AI HUB
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israeli unmanned ground systems specialist Roboteam has expanded and reshaped its product line in the wake of the recent conflicts, introducing…
VICTUS Builds Autonomy That Survives In A Contested World
By: Dawn Zoldi In autonomy, contested environments have moved from exception to baseline. VICTUS founder and CEO Jesse Hamel built his company, and its entire software architecture, to address this…
MatrixSpace Expands Portable Airspace Awareness Offerings with Fusion 360
Portable, Multi-Sensor Detection for Real Drone Threats Burlington, MA (February 12, 2026) – MatrixSpace extends its advanced, portable drone detection portfolio with the launch of the multi-sensor MatrixSpace Fusion 360, verifying threats by…
AI-Driven Iranian Abu Mahdi Cruise Missile Expands Long-Range Anti-Ship Threat
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel With AI-assisted guidance systems, Iran’s new Abu Mahdi long-range cruise missile is designed primarily to strike naval ships at extended ranges…
Geo Week Examines How AI is Tackling America’s Trillion-Dollar Aging Infrastructure Crisis
Geo Week Examines How AI is Tackling America’s Trillion-Dollar Aging Infrastructure Crisis Conference Sessions Demonstrate AI-Powered Solutions for Predictive Maintenance, Automated Asset Management, and Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring DENVER, CO – February…
Russian RUS-PE Loitering Munition Seen Mirroring UVision Hero-90 Design
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israeli defence sources assess that Russia’s new RUS-PE loitering weapon closely tracks the design and concept of UVision’s Hero-90 loitering munition….
Complete Robotic Autonomy: The Role of the Fourth Law in Shaping the Future
By: Pramod Raheja, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Autonomy In the realm of autonomy & robotics, few concepts have endured as profoundly as Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, first introduced…
Echodyne to Open Major New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Rapidly Growing Global Demand
· $40M investment in 86,350-square-foot facility in Washington State, USA · Annual production capacity of >30,000 radars across product lines · More than 200 employees at full capacity · Start of production in summer…
Israel’s Drone Defense Gap: Low‑Flying Hezbollah and Houthi UAVs Expose Limits of Counter‑UAS Systems
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel In real-world combat, protection against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains far from effective, even as new counter‑UAS systems reach the market…
Announcing the Multi-Sensor Edge-to-Cloud MatrixSpace AI Software Platform
Unlocks Decisive Drone Detection for Evolving Airspace Burlington, MA (February 4, 2026) – Building on its award-winning portable AI-sensing radar for counter UAS,MatrixSpace announces a major update to its edge-to-cloud MatrixSpace AI Software…
ANELLO Photonics and Delta Black Aerospace Announce Partnership to Deliver Assured Navigation for Uncrewed Aircraft in GPS-Denied Environments
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, today announced a collaboration…
Has the Golden Dome Arrived? The New National Defense Strategy Could Rewrite America’s Drone and Counter‑Drone Future
By: Dawn Zoldi The newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) resets how Washington thinks about drones over U.S. soil and the industrial base that builds and defeats them. It…
Ondas Accelerates Israeli Defense Tech Acquisitions With Multiple Deals
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israeli defence technologies are becoming increasingly attractive to American companies, which are moving aggressively to acquire advanced local capabilities across air…
Roving No‑Drone Zones or Rogue Authority? FAA’s New NOTAM and the Outer Limits of Drone Mitigation Power
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi, Colonel (USAF, Ret.), Esq. Congress has been very deliberate about who can shoot down, jam or seize drones over the United States, and under what conditions….
Safer Skies, Safer Cities: Why SLTT Agencies Must Prioritize, Adopt, and Act on RF-Cyber for Safe Counter-Drone Airspace Protection
By: Dawn Zoldi The long-anticipated Safer Skies Act has set the stage for much anticipated changes in airspace security. It finally empowers state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) agencies to…
VICTUS Builds Autonomy That Survives In A Contested World
By: Dawn Zoldi In autonomy, contested environments have moved from exception to baseline. VICTUS founder and CEO Jesse Hamel built his company, and its entire software architecture, to address this…
MatrixSpace Expands Portable Airspace Awareness Offerings with Fusion 360
Portable, Multi-Sensor Detection for Real Drone Threats Burlington, MA (February 12, 2026) – MatrixSpace extends its advanced, portable drone detection portfolio with the launch of the multi-sensor MatrixSpace Fusion 360, verifying threats by…
Echodyne to Open Major New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Rapidly Growing Global Demand
· $40M investment in 86,350-square-foot facility in Washington State, USA · Annual production capacity of >30,000 radars across product lines · More than 200 employees at full capacity · Start of production in summer…
Parallel Flight Technologies and Alpha Unmanned Systems Collaborate on Heavy-Fuel UAS Development Supporting U.S. Navy Research
Madrid, Spain / La Selva Beach, California, USA — Tuesday February 10, 2026 — Parallel Flight Technologies, Inc., a developer of next-generation unmanned aircraft systems, and Alpha Unmanned Systems, a…
Hammer and Nails: The FAA’s UAS Enforcement Order Just Made “Legal Action” the Default
By: Dawn Zoldi The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has spent years trying to educate drone operators into compliance. Now it’s doing something else. When a drone flight crosses certain lines,…
Israel’s Drone Defense Gap: Low‑Flying Hezbollah and Houthi UAVs Expose Limits of Counter‑UAS Systems
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel In real-world combat, protection against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains far from effective, even as new counter‑UAS systems reach the market…
Titan Protection Approved for One-to-Many Drone Operations by FAA
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Titan Protection today announced that, in collaboration with FlytBase, it has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct one-to-many drone operations—allowing a single remote pilot…
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…
Electra Secures Additional Patents Protecting its Advanced Hybrid-Electric Architecture for Ultra Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Patents safeguard innovations that ensure normalized operations as the company advances certification of its hybrid-electric EL9 aircraft MANASSAS, Va., February 11, 2026 – Electra.aero, Inc. (Electra) has been granted a series of U.S. patents that protect core components of…
Private-Use Commercial-Operations: Making The Case for A Third Classification for Vertical Flight Infrastructure
By Rex J. Alexander, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Infrastructure The United States aviation infrastructure framework currently recognizes only two categories of use under Title 14 of the Code of Federal…
Positional Truth: Trajectrix Builds Multi‑Source Awareness for Autonomous Flight
By: Dawn Zoldi As beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) move from trials to scaled services, the core question has changed from “Can we…
In-Time Aviation Safety Management Systems: Preparing the NAS for Emerging Aviation
By: Juan Plaza, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operations Safety For more than a century, the National Airspace System (NAS) has been shaped by the assumption that people fly, monitor and…
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…
Cargo Momentum: Martin Solutions and Elroy Air Ready to Shine in the FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program
By: Dawn Zoldi The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) emerging Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) has the potential to do for air taxis and autonomous cargo aircraft…
Volatus Advances Dufour Aerospace Partnership to Develop Runway-Independent Cargo Capabilities for Arctic, Defence, and Commercial Operations
January 27, 2026 07:30 ET | Source: Volatus Aerospace Inc TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — – Volatus Aerospace Inc. (TSX: FLT; OTCQB: TAKOF; Frankfurt: ABB.F) (“Volatus” or the “Company”), a next-generation aerospace…
Embention Incorporates U.S. Headquarters in L.A
Embention USA INC was incorporated in 2025 as a cornerstone of the company’s global expansion, and we are proud to announce that our fully operational team is now active on…
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…
The Guts and Brains of EV Autonomy: Inside Ambarella’s AI, GPU and Radar Stack at CES 2026
By: Dawn Zoldi At CES 2026, Ambarella used an off‑site invitation-only exhibition to make a simple point about electric vehicle autonomy: the car is the shell, but the real value…
The World’s First Personal Robocar: Driving Toward Level 4 With Tensor’s Autonomous Vehicle at CES 2026
By: Dawn Zoldi Autonomy level 4 describes a vehicle that can drive itself without human intervention under defined conditions or in specific geofenced areas, even if the human does not…
Hirth Engines and ePropelled Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance High‑Efficiency Propulsion Systems
Coventry, UK 13 January 2026 – Hirth Engines, a globally recognised leader in two‑stroke engine technology, and ePropelled, an innovator in high‑efficiency intelligent electric propulsion and power‑generation systems, today announced a…
From Vineyard Rows to Robot Rows: Inside Kubota and Agtonomy’s Autonomous Ag at CES 2026
By: Dawn Zoldi Unlike many other companies on the CES 2026 show floor in Las Vegas, Kubota and Agtonomy were not talking about hypothetical robots or distant roadmaps. They were…
Human + Vehicle + Agent: TRINITY Debuts “Brains on Wheels” in the NVIDIA Showcase at CES 2026
Las Vegas, NV – January 5, 2026 – At CES 2026, entrepreneur, technologist, artist and futurist will.i.am unveils TRINITY—a next‑generation micromobility platform that aligns Human + Vehicle + Agent, powered by NVIDIA DGX Spark technology….
VICTUS Builds Autonomy That Survives In A Contested World
By: Dawn Zoldi In autonomy, contested environments have moved from exception to baseline. VICTUS founder and CEO Jesse Hamel built his company, and its entire software architecture, to address this…
Weathering the AAM Revolution: TruWeather Transforms Low‑Altitude Challenges into Operational Advantage
By: Dawn Zoldi TruWeather Solutions is turning the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2025 Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Strategy, Recommendation 2.8 into an operational, low‑altitude weather framework for AAM, drone…
Electra Secures Additional Patents Protecting its Advanced Hybrid-Electric Architecture for Ultra Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Patents safeguard innovations that ensure normalized operations as the company advances certification of its hybrid-electric EL9 aircraft MANASSAS, Va., February 11, 2026 – Electra.aero, Inc. (Electra) has been granted a series of U.S. patents that protect core components of…
Echodyne to Open Major New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Rapidly Growing Global Demand
· $40M investment in 86,350-square-foot facility in Washington State, USA · Annual production capacity of >30,000 radars across product lines · More than 200 employees at full capacity · Start of production in summer…
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…
Autonomous Tech: Gold Rush, Geopolitics or Europe’s New Industrial Era?
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. & Middle East In Europe, autonomous systems have become the backbone of sovereignty, industrial capability and defence readiness. A continent that once…
Positional Truth: Trajectrix Builds Multi‑Source Awareness for Autonomous Flight
By: Dawn Zoldi As beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) move from trials to scaled services, the core question has changed from “Can we…
In-Time Aviation Safety Management Systems: Preparing the NAS for Emerging Aviation
By: Juan Plaza, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operations Safety For more than a century, the National Airspace System (NAS) has been shaped by the assumption that people fly, monitor and…
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy receives first Ukrainian drone manufactured in Germany by Quantum Frontline Industries
The recently established German-Ukrainian joint venture, between Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius in its new production facility ahead…
Roboteam Unveils Gaza‑Proven UGV Fleet, New AI HUB
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israeli unmanned ground systems specialist Roboteam has expanded and reshaped its product line in the wake of the recent conflicts, introducing…
VICTUS Builds Autonomy That Survives In A Contested World
By: Dawn Zoldi In autonomy, contested environments have moved from exception to baseline. VICTUS founder and CEO Jesse Hamel built his company, and its entire software architecture, to address this…
Complete Robotic Autonomy: The Role of the Fourth Law in Shaping the Future
By: Pramod Raheja, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Autonomy In the realm of autonomy & robotics, few concepts have endured as profoundly as Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, first introduced…
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…
Autonomous Tech: Gold Rush, Geopolitics or Europe’s New Industrial Era?
By Philip Hicks, Autonomy Global Ambassador – U.K. & Middle East In Europe, autonomous systems have become the backbone of sovereignty, industrial capability and defence readiness. A continent that once…
AUVSI Launches Bipartisan Partnership for Robotics Competitiveness on Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C. — Today, a coalition of Congressional leaders and industry executives gathered on Capitol Hill to launch the Partnership for Robotics Competitiveness (PfRC), an initiative led by the Association for Uncrewed…
Autonomy in Action: Top 10 Use Cases for Drones and Robotics in Energy and Utilities
By: Sylvia Ibarra, Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition (Autonomy Global Media Partner) As energy systems grow more complex and operational margins tighten, drones, robotics and AI continue to move from…
AI-Driven Iranian Abu Mahdi Cruise Missile Expands Long-Range Anti-Ship Threat
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel With AI-assisted guidance systems, Iran’s new Abu Mahdi long-range cruise missile is designed primarily to strike naval ships at extended ranges…
Maritime Autonomy’s Legal Crossroads: Inside Law‑Tech Connect’s High‑Seas Debate
By: Dawn Zoldi Autonomous ships, uncrewed surface vessels and underwater robots, once relegated to the land of sci‑fi, already survey seabeds, inspect critical infrastructure and quietly impact global trade and…
AI-Enhanced Sea Breaker Missile Brings Autonomous Precision Strike to GNSS-Denied Seas
By: Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Israel Israeli defense giant Rafael has upgraded its Sea Breaker long-range precision-guided missile with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to improve autonomous target recognition…
AI-Powered Orbiter 5 Tactical UAV Brings High-Autonomy ISTAR Capabilities to the Battlefield
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel The Orbiter 5 tactical UAV from Israeli company Aeronautics has emerged as a high-autonomy platform whose performance is increasingly driven by…
AI-Powered Underwater Warfare: Rafael and DSIT Deploy Next-Generation Submarine Defense and Surveillance Systems
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel The growing underwater threat from Iran and its proxies has reshaped how Israel, and the world, must think about maritime security….
Israeli Unmanned Surface Vessels Struggle to Gain Navy and Export Traction
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israeli defence companies hesitate to restart major investment in unmanned surface vessels (USVs) after earlier efforts delivered only limited operational uptake…
BAE Systems Secures $36 Million Contract to Equip U.S. Navy Submarines with Multifunction Modular Masts
BAE Systems has been awarded a $36 million production contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver Multifunction Modular Mast (MMM) systems for integration onto U.S. Navy submarines. The MMM system is…
JEKTA unveils 1:9 scale model of PHA-ZE 100 amphibious aircraft as it continues flight testing in Italy
Payerne, Switzerland/ 3 December 2025 – JEKTA, the Switzerland-based manufacturer of the zero-emissions Passenger Hydro Aircraft – Zero Emissions 100 (PHA-ZE 100) amphibious aircraft, has revealed photographs of the 1:9 scale model of…
U. S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and United Launch Alliance successfully launch USSF-87 mission aboard a Vulcan Rocket
Summary: The U.S. Space Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch team successfully launched the USSF-87 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida using a ULA Vulcan Centaur for this…
Space Systems Command, Mission Partners Prepares USSF-87 for National Space Security Launch on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur
SUMMARY: The primary payload on USSF-87 is the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) space system. GSSAP is a space-based capability operating in a near-geosynchronous orbit supporting the U.S. Space Command…
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…
Boeing and Ben-Gurion University Launch USD 10 Million Cybersecurity Center for Next-Generation Aviation Systems
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Israel, a world leader in cybersecurity, and U.S.-based defense giant Boeing, has moved to leverage this expertise to secure its next…
Sovereign, Secure and Resilient: Geospatial Infrastructure As National Security Infrastructure
By: Dawn Zoldi Geospatial infrastructure has moved from the back office to the front line of national security. At this year’s GeoBuiz Summit, the “Sovereign, Secure, and Resilient Geospatial Infrastructure…
Inertial Labs, a VIAVI Solutions Company, Launches IRINS LEO-Aided Inertial Navigation System
System enables full D3SOE operation on land, air and sea by integrating state-of-the-art positioning, navigation and timing technologies from VIAVI Chandler, Ariz., January 29, 2026 – Inertial Labs, a VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI)…
Beyond Satellites: How the IHub, Space Force Guardians and Innovators Are Prototyping the Future of Spacepower
By: Samantha Louque, VT-ARC Ever since the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, outer space has been a highly contested and rapidly changing domain. However, that change has grown exponentially…
U. S. Space Force Field Commands successfully launch GPS III Space Vehicle 09 into orbit
Summary: The Space Force launched a Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite, named in honor of NASA astronaut Col. Ellison Onizuka, into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy receives first Ukrainian drone manufactured in Germany by Quantum Frontline Industries
The recently established German-Ukrainian joint venture, between Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius in its new production facility ahead…
U. S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and United Launch Alliance successfully launch USSF-87 mission aboard a Vulcan Rocket
Summary: The U.S. Space Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch team successfully launched the USSF-87 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida using a ULA Vulcan Centaur for this…
Quantum Systems Secures New European Financing Package to Scale the Future of Unmanned Technologies
Quantum Systems has secured €150M financing backed by the European Investment Bank, Commerzbank, KfW and Deutsche Bank. The agreement highlights a growing commitment to ensuring that security-related innovation can be…
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