From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:…
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…
Closing the Data Gap: Why Digital Weather Infrastructure Is the Foundation of the Low-Altitude Economy
By: Clint Harper, Autonomy Global Ambassador – AAM The advanced air mobility (AAM) industry has made remarkable strides. Vehicles navigating the certification process, vertiport networks are being contemplated, and regulatory…
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…
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,…
The Digital Roadway to the Sky: Airspace Link Builds the UTM Backbone for Drones and AAM
By: Dawn Zoldi Airspace Link has turned low-altitude airspace into an operational transportation layer by stitching together public safety, logistics, military bases and mega-events on a single digital infrastructure. On…
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….
Arrow 3 AI-Powered Green Pine Radar Achieves Over 90% Kill Rate Against Ballistic Missiles
The Israeli Arrow 3 air defense system’s exceptional kill rate against Iranian ballistic missiles is directly linked to artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into its “Green Pine” radar, a capability now…
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…
WISPR Systems’ SkyScout 2+ Earns Blue UAS List
Approval Validates Platform for Federal and Public Safety Deployment Batesville, Mississippi – April 2026 – WISPR Systems, a U.S.-based manufacturer of secure unmanned aircraft systems, announced today that its SkyScout…
bitsensing Signs MOU with Stress Solution to Build an Integrated Healthcare Model
bitsensing’s radar-based sleep and occupancy sensing technology to be combined with Stress Solution’s HRV-based personalized sound technology to implement an integrated healthcare model The two companies will jointly participate in the development of…
When Missiles Move at 5X the Speed of Sound, Timing Is Everything
L3Harris Completes All 16 Tranche 1 Payloads, Speeds Tranche 2 Production APR 13, 2026: In support of national defense priorities defined by the Department of War, early this year L3Harris…
Spaceflux Selected by MDA Space to Deliver Optical Systems for Canadian Space Surveillance Programme
LONDON, UK — Spaceflux, the London-based specialist in space domain awareness and space intelligence, has been selected as the optical systems provider by MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) (NYSE: MDA)…
Speedbird and Moya Aero Sign Strategic MoU to ExploreIntegrated Drone Logistics Collaboration.
São José dos Campos — April 13, 2026 — Moya Aero and Speedbird announced today the signing of a nonbinding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a strategic collaboration aimed…
Voyager Unlocks Satellite Propulsion Production at Scale
DENVER, April 13, 2026–Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) announced it has doubled the production capacity at its Denver-metro facility from just one year ago. This milestone demonstrates the company’s ability to…
OpEd – Drone Delivery’s Blind Spot: Why FAA’s Drone Package PEA Potentially Puts Heliports, Hospitals and Safety at Risk
By: Dawn Zoldi* By midnight January 8th, the FAA’s official public comment period on its Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Drone Package Delivery Operations quietly closed with only a…
OpEd – Secretary Duffy’s $12.5 Billion Air Traffic Control Overhaul Must Include UAS and AAM Interoperability
By: Michelle Duquette, AG Operations Ambassador In a recent fireside chat at the Honeywell American Aviation Leadership Summit, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy laid out an ambitious timeline: rebuild America’s air…
Op-Ed: Restoring American Leadership in UAS, AAM and eVTOL Technologies
By: Rex Alexander, AG Infrastructure Ambassador On June 6th, 2025, President Donald Trump issued his Executive Order, “Unleashing American Drone Dominance,” in an attempt to restore American leadership in uncrewed…
OpEd – Quantum-Enhanced Right of Way: Manned-Unmanned Skies in Harmony in a Brave New World
by Fahad ibne Masood, MRAeS In the year 2030, the population density of urban areas will cause rush hour to be a time of extreme congestion. Electric air taxis will…
OpEd – Beyond the Earthly Rulebook: Navigating the Cosmic Gray Zone in Space
By: Tracy L. Reynolds, AG Maritime and Space Law Ambassador As humanity’s ambitions propel us beyond Earth’s boundaries, we find ourselves at the edge of a new legal frontier where…
Clear Words, Safer Skies: A “Words Matter” Review of the FAA Part 108 BVLOS NPRM
By: Michelle Duquette, AG Operations Ambassador The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Part 108 Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations marks a pivotal advancement in modernizing…
Op-Ed – Why GPS-Only Solutions Are Not Enough: The Case for Independent Surveillance in Part 108 BVLOS Drone Operations
By: Ray Adams,* AG Contributor As the FAA’s Part 108 rule for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations moves toward implementation, it’s clear that advanced cooperative technologies like…
OpEd – America’s Counter-Drone Imperative: Permanent Congressional Action Needed Now to Secure the Skies
By: Dawn Zoldi The American drone industry, as a whole, has marked its collective calendar with a single, palpable date: October 6th, the conclusion of the public comment period for…
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Arrow 3 AI-Powered Green Pine Radar Achieves Over 90% Kill Rate Against Ballistic Missiles
The Israeli Arrow 3 air defense system’s exceptional kill rate against Iranian ballistic missiles is directly linked to artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into its “Green Pine” radar, a capability now…
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…
WISPR Systems’ SkyScout 2+ Earns Blue UAS List
Approval Validates Platform for Federal and Public Safety Deployment Batesville, Mississippi – April 2026 – WISPR Systems, a U.S.-based manufacturer of secure unmanned aircraft systems, announced today that its SkyScout…
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Newly released edition of the FAA’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Interference Guide. This significant update offers expanded insight into current jamming and spoofing activity, operational impacts on aircraft systems,…
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Indianapolis has a piece of aviation infrastructure that most cities only wish they had, and aviation consultant Five-Alpha, LLC’s Airport Assessment Report, published June 6, 2024, makes that clear in plain…
The 2025 AAM National Strategy & Comprehensive Plan – A White Paper
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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…
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Join us as we hit the Jersey Shore, thanks to Cape May County (Sponsor), to gather expert first impressions from this year’s “Shore to Soar” event. Evolving from the long…