Building Digital Fortresses: How Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Rules Are Reshaping Autonomous Systems
Cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought for drones and autonomous vehicles. It is the foundation that determines whether these systems stay safe, lawful and mission ready. That was the message…
Building the Onion: How MatrixSpace Layers Counter-Drone Defense, From Front Line to Homefront
Nobody owns the sky anymore. That reality anchored a wide-ranging conversation with MatrixSpace, a company whose technology has evolved from a data-networking concept into a core sensing layer now demonstrated…
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…
Echodyne Awarded $250 Million JIATF-401 Counter-UAS Contract
KIRKLAND, WA – September 30, 2026 – Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announced an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract supporting the Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s (JIATF-401) Domestic Shield program. The agreement…
BAE Systems to deliver M‑Code GPS for U.S. Navy joint precision approach and landing system
DIGAR™ 500M enables assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) with anti‑jam protection for precision carrier landings CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — October 1 — BAE Systems has been awarded a $16 million contract…
Pentagon Plans Autonomous Warfare Command by 2027
The Department of War plans to establish a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command by Oct. 1, 2027, aiming to accelerate how the U.S. military buys, tests and fields unmanned and autonomous…
Digital Force Technologies Awarded $500M IDIQ Contract from JIATF-401 to Deliver Advanced Counter-UAS Capabilities
DFT Full-Stack Mission Systems supporting force protection, base defense and counter-UAS operations SAN DIEGO, CA, September 29, 2026 — Digital Force Technologies (DFT), a defense technology company specializing in the development and…
DroneShield Awarded JIATF-401 Domestic Shield IDIQ Contract
Three-year, $500 million contract vehicle supports accelerated deployment of counter-UAS capabilities for U.S. homeland defense Warrenton, VA – 30 September 2026 – DroneShield, a global leader in advanced counter-drone technology, today announced…
Building Digital Fortresses: How Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Rules Are Reshaping Autonomous Systems
Cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought for drones and autonomous vehicles. It is the foundation that determines whether these systems stay safe, lawful and mission ready. That was the message…
Building the Onion: How MatrixSpace Layers Counter-Drone Defense, From Front Line to Homefront
Nobody owns the sky anymore. That reality anchored a wide-ranging conversation with MatrixSpace, a company whose technology has evolved from a data-networking concept into a core sensing layer now demonstrated…
Echodyne Awarded $250 Million JIATF-401 Counter-UAS Contract
KIRKLAND, WA – September 30, 2026 – Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announced an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract supporting the Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s (JIATF-401) Domestic Shield program. The agreement…
BAE Systems to deliver M‑Code GPS for U.S. Navy joint precision approach and landing system
DIGAR™ 500M enables assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) with anti‑jam protection for precision carrier landings CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — October 1 — BAE Systems has been awarded a $16 million contract…
Europe’s Quantum Airspace: Scaling U-space, 4D Trajectories and Multimodal Mobility
Ask a controller working a summer weekend over the Alps what the hardest part of the job is, and the answer is rarely the weather. It’s the arithmetic. Every additional…
Pentagon Plans Autonomous Warfare Command by 2027
The Department of War plans to establish a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command by Oct. 1, 2027, aiming to accelerate how the U.S. military buys, tests and fields unmanned and autonomous…
DroneShield Awarded JIATF-401 Domestic Shield IDIQ Contract
Three-year, $500 million contract vehicle supports accelerated deployment of counter-UAS capabilities for U.S. homeland defense Warrenton, VA – 30 September 2026 – DroneShield, a global leader in advanced counter-drone technology, today announced…
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…
Building the Onion: How MatrixSpace Layers Counter-Drone Defense, From Front Line to Homefront
Nobody owns the sky anymore. That reality anchored a wide-ranging conversation with MatrixSpace, a company whose technology has evolved from a data-networking concept into a core sensing layer now demonstrated…
Carahsoft Drones In Public Sector Summit Highlights Law Enforcement Drone, C-UAS Adoption in NCR
Police agencies across the National Capital Region (NCR) say that drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs and counter-UAS operations (c-UAS) have become part of everyday law enforcement infrastructure. Speaking at Carahsoft’s inaugural Drones…
Motorola Solutions Closes $1.5B D-Fend Acquisition: Counter-UAS Has Become a Public Safety Essential
Motorola Solutions has completed its $1.5 billion acquisition of D-Fend Solutions, closing a deal first announced in June 2026 and confirming that counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) have moved well beyond…
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…
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…
Bringing GIS Indoors: Collaboration Rewires Public Safety Response
The technology behind indoor mapping is no longer the hard part. The hard part is getting people to trust it, fund it and use it every day. And not just…
The Infrastructure Awakening: GALE Project Rethinks Autonomy From the Ground Up
For much of the past decade, conversations about the drone industry have centered on the aircraft themselves. Manufacturers competed over flight endurance, payload capacity, sensor resolution, and more recently, Beyond…
From Hover to Loiter: Why Canadian Public Safety Agencies Need to Rethink Flight
When a suspect sped off during an Ottawa police pursuit, the department couldn’t keep up. Police Chief Eric Stubbs later noted that, while his department uses drones, it lacked the…
Building Digital Fortresses: How Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Rules Are Reshaping Autonomous Systems
Cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought for drones and autonomous vehicles. It is the foundation that determines whether these systems stay safe, lawful and mission ready. That was the message…
AI Festival unveils its 2027 theme: the challenge of the new AI era is to orchestrate the intelligence ecosystem
Bologna, Italy, September 28, 2026. Orchestrating Intelligence – Where Humans & AI play in Symphony is the theme of the fourth edition of AI Festival, the International Festival on Artificial…
Europe’s Quantum Airspace: Scaling U-space, 4D Trajectories and Multimodal Mobility
Ask a controller working a summer weekend over the Alps what the hardest part of the job is, and the answer is rarely the weather. It’s the arithmetic. Every additional…
World Space Week 2026 Celebrates the “Rocket Revolution”
HOUSTON, Texas (September 30, 2026)— World Space Week events, beginning October 4 in 100 nations, will celebrate how launch innovation has stimulated the rapidly-growing space economy and enabled new uses…
DronesQuad’s High-Level Product Safety Criteria: A Bet on Cross-Border UAS Certification
Most people in the drone industry have never heard of “DronesQuad” (DsQ), an unofficial coordination group, which has operated behind-the-scenes as a semi-formal, working level coordination channel among the “big…
Volatus Aerospace Marks Official Opening of Mirabel Facility as Canadian Manufacturing Operations Scale
MIRABEL, Québec, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Volatus Aerospace Inc. (TSX: FLT) (OTCQX: TAKOF) (Frankfurt: ABB.F) (“Volatus” or the “Company”), a global aerospace and defence company, today marked the…
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…
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…
Robox AI New Configurable Video Intelligence Platform Transforms Existing Camera Infrastructure Into Real-Time Actionable Business Intelligence
Combines Edge-Based AI, Configurable Detection Models & Ongoing Capability Development Evolves with Changing Business, Safety & Loss-Prevention Challenges Connects Detection, Alerts, Response, Resolution, Reporting, Analytics & Accountability Los Angeles, CA,…
BAE Systems to deliver M‑Code GPS for U.S. Navy joint precision approach and landing system
DIGAR™ 500M enables assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) with anti‑jam protection for precision carrier landings CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — October 1 — BAE Systems has been awarded a $16 million contract…
Tumbleweed and SIRIUS Space sign MoU to explore microgravity flights on Sirius S1 Ballistic
VIENNA, Austria – September 29, 2026 – Tumbleweed and the French rocket builder SIRIUS Space Services have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to examine flying Tumbleweed’s Pod payload containers…
Volatus Aerospace Marks Official Opening of Mirabel Facility as Canadian Manufacturing Operations Scale
MIRABEL, Québec, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Volatus Aerospace Inc. (TSX: FLT) (OTCQX: TAKOF) (Frankfurt: ABB.F) (“Volatus” or the “Company”), a global aerospace and defence company, today marked the…
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…
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…
Certified Isn’t the Same as Competent: The FAA Is Cracking Down on Drone Pilots Who Don’t Know the Difference
On April 29, 2026, United Airlines Flight 1980 was on final approach to San Diego International Airport at 3,000 feet when the crew reported striking a drone. The FAA and…
New Jersey Puts Down Roots for a National Aviation Innovation Corridor
By: Dawn Zoldi At the Shore to Soar 2026 (S2S) in Cape May, New Jersey, a panel moderated by NARTP Board Chairman Mark Loeben, a 31-year Air Force veteran (Major…
Crimson Tide Counter-Drone: The Future of Campus Airspace Security
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa boasts an enrollment record of 41,000 students. On any given autumn Saturday, more than 100,000 fans pack Bryant-Denny Stadium, one…
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…
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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…
Echodyne Awarded $250 Million JIATF-401 Counter-UAS Contract
KIRKLAND, WA – September 30, 2026 – Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announced an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract supporting the Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s (JIATF-401) Domestic Shield program. The agreement…
Robox AI New Configurable Video Intelligence Platform Transforms Existing Camera Infrastructure Into Real-Time Actionable Business Intelligence
Combines Edge-Based AI, Configurable Detection Models & Ongoing Capability Development Evolves with Changing Business, Safety & Loss-Prevention Challenges Connects Detection, Alerts, Response, Resolution, Reporting, Analytics & Accountability Los Angeles, CA,…
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In Future Flight, workforce strategist Sharon Rossmark makes the case that uncrewed aviation’s biggest constraint isn’t technology: it’s the systems built to scale it. Drawing on more than a decade…
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Josh O’Leary, CTO, Airwise | Dawn of Autonomy Episode #142
This week, Dawn of Autonomy is kicking off “Ecosystem” month, sponsored by Airwise Solutions, with Josh O’Leary, the company’s CTO and co-founder, joining us on the show. Airwise Solutions is…
Bernd Rietberg, CEO, Tulip Tech | Dawn of Autonomy Episode #141
Founded in 2020, Tulip Tech develops high-energy battery systems and power electronics for unmanned aerial, ground, and underwater vehicles. The Netherlands-based company designs, integrates, and manufactures battery packs that help…
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