Required Navigation Performance: Commercial Drone Ops Should Use the FAA’s Existing Playbook to Scale
The airspace demands predictability. That means situational awareness grounded in shared understanding, behaviors, standards and regulation. Commercial drone operators trying to scale beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) are learning…
MatrixSpace Strengthens Executive Team with UAS Sales Leader, US Marine Veteran John Bagocius
Burlington, MA (August 12, 2026) – As demand for rapidly deployable counter-drone technology accelerates worldwide, MatrixSpace has appointed industry veteran John Bagocius as Head of Sales to expand the company’s global go-to-market efforts…
Countering World Cup Drones: How FIFA 2026 Became A Live-Fire Test for the New CUAS Imperative
Counter‑unmanned aircraft systems (counter‑UAS / CUAS) moved from policy on paper to operational reality at the FIFA World Cup 2026. Repeated small UAS incursions over stadiums and fan zones forced…
ePropelled to Increase Manufacturing Footprint with $60 Millionin U.S. Government Funding to Strengthen U.S. DronePropulsion Supply Chain
Expansion Increases Manufacturing Capacity by 4X and Positions ePropelled as a Leading Domestic Supplier of Advanced Dual-Use Electric Propulsion Systems LACONIA, N.H. — 11 August, 2026 ePropelled, a leading U.S….
Airwise Solutions Launches Nexus, an Open Airspace-Awareness Platform That Unifies Trusted Operational Data into a Single Operating Picture
New airwiseOS capability fuses radar, RF detection, Remote ID, ADS-B, video, telemetry and enterprise data into Nexus, a unified operating picture for public safety and critical infrastructure. TULSA, Okla., Aug….
Commercial UAV Expo 2026 Preview: BVLOS, Counter-UAS Policy and AI Take Center Stage in Las Vegas
As the commercial drone industry pushes further into regulated airspace and autonomous operations, Commercial UAV Expo 2026 arrives at a pivotal moment. From September 1-3 at Caesars Forum, more than…
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…
Voyager Awarded Space Force Contract for Resilient Satellite Communications
DENVER—August 10, 2026—Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) was awarded a contract with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to develop space-to-space communication capabilities. The effort supports a resilient data transport…
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…
Agile Autonomy Takes Flight: Tycho.AI’s Mission to Rewire the Battlefield
Dr. Sertac Karaman has spent two decades teaching machines to move faster and think smarter than the humans who built them. Now, as founder of Tycho.AI and director of MIT’s…
Weaponized Skies After Ukraine: How Gamified Drone Warfare Threatens Global Security
At the GBEF EDGE Security Summit 2026 in San Diego, Blue Lights Digital CEO and Interpol UAS Red Team commander Matt Service delivered a frightening warning. The war in Ukraine…
Drone Industry Rallies Behind MAVLink-Military: Dronecode Hackathon Opens Door to New Era of Interoperable Payloads and Platforms
14 teams integrated the MAVLink-Military dialect, verifying cross-vendor systems end to end and flying working demos for government and industry guests MANASSAS, Va — Jul 30, 2026 — Engineering teams…
Ironaxe Comes Out of Stealth Mode: A Counter-UAS Tiltwing VTOL That Hunts by Tangling, Not Killing
Peter Schmidt, founder and CEO of Ironaxe Corporation, believes the smartest way to stop a hostile drone is not to blow it up with a $30,000 heat-seeking missile. It is…
Intelligence Assessment: AI On Russian Drones
Western intelligence organizations suspect that Russia has transferred to Iran the technology that enables the use of AI on advanced attack drones. Israeli sources said that in the Ukraine war,…
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…
AI Festival Returns to Milan in 2027: International AI Business and Advanced Training Take Center Stage
On February 11–12, 2027, the event created by Search On Media Group and powered by WMF – We Make Future arrives at Superstudio Maxi, featuring 30,000 sqm to welcome companies,…
Drones Are Overrunning Borders. This Award-Winning RF-Cyber Solution Stops Them
Borders have always been contested. The emergence of weaponized, commercial,and cartel-controlled drones has rewritten the threat calculus in ways that legacy security infrastructure was never designed to handle. Surveillance cameras…
Bridging Sky and Space: Viasat’s Velaris and the Future of BVLOS UAV Connectivity
By: Dawn Zoldi When a UAV crosses the threshold of visual line of sight, the pilot loses direct perception of the aircraft. A reliable, continuous data link that carries command-and-control…
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)…
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…
MGI Engineering Successfully Launches TigerShark in Strategic Partnership with Auterion
Historic test marks Europe’s most significant advance in autonomous deep strike capability in over a decade Oxfordshire, UK – 01 April 2026 – MGI Engineering Ltd (MGI) today announced the…
ePropelled unveils expansion at Global Innovation Centre in Coventry as it accelerates toward producing more than one million propulsion systems annually by 2027
Strategic development of new sovereign European Systems Hub Coventry, UK | 20 March 2026 ePropelled opened its new Global Innovation Centre in Coventry on 20 March, a major expansion that…
ePropelled Announces Largest Expansion of Motor Controllers (ESCs) and Intelligent Power Systems, Strengthening Electronic Propulsion Leadership
LACONIA, N.H./ COVENTRY/ CHENNAI – 4 March 2026, ePropelled, a global innovator in electric propulsion and power management solutions for uncrewed vehicles and advanced mobility platforms, today announced its largest expansion…
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…
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When Help Crowds the Sky: Operational Safety Lessons from Disaster-Zone Drone Saturation
In the first hours after a natural disaster, drones are among the most valuable tools available to emergency responders. They provide rapid situational awareness, reach areas inaccessible to ground teams…
Drones Are Overrunning Borders. This Award-Winning RF-Cyber Solution Stops Them
Borders have always been contested. The emergence of weaponized, commercial,and cartel-controlled drones has rewritten the threat calculus in ways that legacy security infrastructure was never designed to handle. Surveillance cameras…
Drones, AI, and the Missing Operational Readiness Link in African Wildlife Conservation
By: Peter Karanja, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Africa African conservation does not have a drone adoption problem. Over the years, drones have been deployed to track wildlife. AI has been…
Human-In-The-Loop Beats Full Autonomy in Africa – Here’s Why
By: Peter Karanja, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Africa Autonomy is easy to sell on a slide deck. I have seen potential customers light up when they learn that artificial intelligence…
Egypt Reportedly Signs 400 Million Dollar Deal for Chinese WJ-700 Combat Drones, Expanding Long-Range Strike and Red Sea Surveillance Capabilities
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel Egypt has reportedly concluded a major unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) deal, signing a contract valued at about 400 million dollars…
International Drone Regulations: Key Updates On BVLOS, UTM and Use Cases from Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa
By: Dawn Zoldi Navigating the world of drone regulations can be challenging. At this year’s Law-Tech Connect, industry leaders and attorneys from Australia, Africa, Canada and Europe highlighted the international…
Landmark Year for Advanced Air Mobility in Africa: Milestones, Momentum and Challenges Ahead
By: Peter Karanja, AG Africa Ambassador Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is becoming a reality across Africa, and with it, new aviation technologies across the continent. In 2025, Africa claimed a…
Global Autonomous Tech Startups: Perspectives from Africa, Asia & Europe
By: Eno Umoh, Business & Entrepreneurship Ambassador Expert voices from three continents gathered to talk about the state of autonomous tech startups and provided a real-world look at how startups…
Weaponized Skies After Ukraine: How Gamified Drone Warfare Threatens Global Security
At the GBEF EDGE Security Summit 2026 in San Diego, Blue Lights Digital CEO and Interpol UAS Red Team commander Matt Service delivered a frightening warning. The war in Ukraine…
Drone Industry Rallies Behind MAVLink-Military: Dronecode Hackathon Opens Door to New Era of Interoperable Payloads and Platforms
14 teams integrated the MAVLink-Military dialect, verifying cross-vendor systems end to end and flying working demos for government and industry guests MANASSAS, Va — Jul 30, 2026 — Engineering teams…
The Quantum Road: America’s Answer to Jellyfish Drone Swarms
The skies over a contested airspace in April 2026 offered a preview of tomorrow’s air warfare, and it was unlike anything a fighter pilot had trained for. The F-15E Strike…
Airwayz and Tenna Systems Partner to Integrate Spectrum Intelligence into Airspace Governance
Integration already live, first deployed as part of INDI, Israel’s National Drone Initiative Tel Aviv, 16 July 2026 — Airwayz and Tenna Systems today announced a strategic partnership integrating Tenna’s…
Russian Drones With Mines
The “first drone war” between Russia and Ukraine is producing new deadly combinations of cheap drones and explosives. Israeli sources following this war because it has implications for the use…
Drone Pathways in the Sky: What Global Drone Operators Need to Know About UTM, BVLOS and Spectrum Risk
Beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) is no longer just a regulatory milestone. It is a systems challenge that depends on UAS Traffic Management, spectrum policy, secure supply chains and…
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…
How WaiV Robotics Is Solving the Last 10 Feet of Offshore Drone Operations
Landing a drone on a moving ship is one of the hardest problems in unmanned aviation. WaiV Robotics built a system that does it autonomously, without touching the drone itself….
When Help Crowds the Sky: Operational Safety Lessons from Disaster-Zone Drone Saturation
In the first hours after a natural disaster, drones are among the most valuable tools available to emergency responders. They provide rapid situational awareness, reach areas inaccessible to ground teams…
Uruguay’s Ministry of Interior speeds critical incident response with citywide autonomous drone program, powered by FlytBase
Autonomous drones reach incident scenes within minutes, giving Montevideo public safety officials a live view before they arrive. San Jose, California (USA), Jun 24, 2026: FlytBase, Inc, a physical AI…
Drones Are Overrunning Borders. This Award-Winning RF-Cyber Solution Stops Them
Borders have always been contested. The emergence of weaponized, commercial,and cartel-controlled drones has rewritten the threat calculus in ways that legacy security infrastructure was never designed to handle. Surveillance cameras…
The Dawn Of Confined Space Autonomy: Flyability’s Elios 3
In heavy industry, there are places even robots were never supposed to go. Deep inside boilers and tanks, down lightless sewer lines, behind concrete in nuclear storage vaults and inside…
From Rigs To Refineries: The New Energy Ops Stack For Offshore And Petrochemical Assets
Full Crew YouTube; The Energy Ops crew from Top L to R; Nate Ernst, David Cole, Julien Dupont and Gabrielle Wain. Energy operators have entered a new world as AI,…
Speedbird Aero and iFood Launch New Drone Delivery Routein São Paulo
Operation in Alphaville, Greater São Paulo, integrates Speedbird aircraft, autonomous robot, and partner delivery riders in a multimodal model São Paulo, June 1, 2026 – Speedbird Aero, a Brazilian company…
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…
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:…
Kaingaroa Tipu’s Intelligent Forest: How GeoAI, UAVs and GIS Power A Living Digital Twin
In New Zealand, Kaingaroa Tipu (KT) has turned a century‑old forest into a testbed for intelligent, sustainable operations, using LiDAR, UAVs, satellite imagery and geoAI to manage every tree like…
T-REX and GrandSKY: Coming at You Sideways Like a RAPTR
The DoW’s most agile testing engine and the nation’s premier drone proving ground are closing the gap between commercial innovation and battlefield readiness. By: Dawn Zoldi The Pentagon has a…
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…
ANELLO Photonics and Q-CTRL Announce Strategic Collaboration to Redefine Resilient Navigation for UAVs in GPS-Denied Environments
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SYDNEY, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, and…
Geo Week 2026: Emesent Launches the Emesent GX1, an All-in-One SLAM LiDAR, RTK and 360° Imagery Scanner
Industry first: GX1 delivers independently validated 5-10mm global accuracy, providing surveyors, AEC sector with long-awaited mobile scanning speed and survey-grade accuracy they can prove DENVER, 16 February 2026 ―Today at Geo Week, Emesent, a global leader in autonomous mapping technology, launches the Emesent GX1, the world’s most accurate integrated Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Real-Time Kinematic…
AI-Powered SMASH 3000 Fire Control System Selected for Australian Army Counter-Drone Evaluation
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel The Israeli company SMARTSHOOTER has brought artificial intelligence (AI) to the small arms battlefield with its SMASH family of fire control…
International Drone Regulations: Key Updates On BVLOS, UTM and Use Cases from Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa
By: Dawn Zoldi Navigating the world of drone regulations can be challenging. At this year’s Law-Tech Connect, industry leaders and attorneys from Australia, Africa, Canada and Europe highlighted the international…
Lessons from the Black Sea: Maritime Uncrewed Systems, Strategic Doctrine and the Future of AUKUS
By: Philip Hicks, AG U.K. Ambassador* In the Black Sea, Ukraine’s daring use of small unmanned surface vessels (sUSVs) against the Russian Navy drives a new chapter in naval warfare–…
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MatrixSpace Strengthens Executive Team with UAS Sales Leader, US Marine Veteran John Bagocius
Burlington, MA (August 12, 2026) – As demand for rapidly deployable counter-drone technology accelerates worldwide, MatrixSpace has appointed industry veteran John Bagocius as Head of Sales to expand the company’s global go-to-market efforts…
Emesent Secures $2M Grant to Develop GPS-Denied Autonomy Open Platform Cortex AI
As the global autonomous robotics market is set to reach $9B by 2030, Cortex AI will make Emesent’s proven GPS-denied stack commercially available to robotics companies and OEMs August 12, 2026 ― Emesent, an…
ePropelled to Increase Manufacturing Footprint with $60 Millionin U.S. Government Funding to Strengthen U.S. DronePropulsion Supply Chain
Expansion Increases Manufacturing Capacity by 4X and Positions ePropelled as a Leading Domestic Supplier of Advanced Dual-Use Electric Propulsion Systems LACONIA, N.H. — 11 August, 2026 ePropelled, a leading U.S….
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