US Space Force selects L3Harris to strengthen America’s defense with advanced space surveillance
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 7, 2026 — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to sustain and modernize critical ground systems,…
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…
Proven on orbit: L3Harris congratulates Missile Defense Agency for receiving top defense honor for HBTSS
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 8, 2026 — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) congratulates the government and civilian team recognized by the Department of War with the 2025 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award….
Digital Force Technologies and Powerus Partner to Deliver Integrated Kinetic Counter-UAS Capability
San Diego, CA, and West Palm Beach, FL., Tuesday, April 7, 2026 — Digital Force Technologies (DFT), a defense technology company specializing in the development and manufacturing of advanced sensing systems, and Powerus,…
VICTUS Technologies Raises Seed Round to Advance Contested Autonomy Platform
Mar 25, 2026, 15:46 ET Funding to accelerate hardware-agnostic software for autonomous systems operating without GPS WASHINGTON, March 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VICTUS Technologies, a contested autonomy company, today announced…
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….
Vigilant Aerospace Deploys Airspace Safety System with Radars at Oklahoma Air & Space Port
BURNS FLAT, OK March 31st, 2026 — Vigilant Aerospace has installed a FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system with multiple long-range radars and transponder receivers at the Oklahoma Air & Space Port in western Oklahoma as a…
Homeland Protection at Speed‑and‑Scale: Lockheed Martin’s Layered Integrated Air and Missile Defense
By: Dawn Zoldi Now that the U.S. is at war, Iran’s missile barrages and drone swarms overseas have turned integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) into a homeland emergency. Lockheed…
ExLabs Pushes Private Sector Role in Planetary Defense as Apophis Asteroid Approaches Earth
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 9, 2026) — ExLabs, a commercial deep-space exploration company, will highlight the growing role of private companies in planetary defense ahead of asteroid Apophis’ historic 2029…
Vigilant Aerospace Deploys Airspace Safety System with Radars at Oklahoma Air & Space Port
BURNS FLAT, OK March 31st, 2026 — Vigilant Aerospace has installed a FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system with multiple long-range radars and transponder receivers at the Oklahoma Air & Space Port in western Oklahoma as a…
No Blind Spots: Building Real Airspace Awareness for Low‑Altitude Fliers
Airspace has increasingly become a contested, crowded and data-rich domain where public safety, national security and commercial opportunity all converge. For the panelists gathered at the recent DRONERESPONDERS NACON, a…
Space Systems Command Awards Task Orders to Launch Missile Tracking Space Vehicles
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is increasing the nation’s missile tracking capability with two additional National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane…
Voyager Awarded Contract with Icarus Robotics: Mission Management As A Service to Enable Next-Gen Robotics Demostration in LEO
DENVER–March 30, 2026–Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) announced a new mission management contract with Icarus Robotics to test their free-flying robotic platform, Joyride, aboard the International Space Station. The contract underscores…
Orchestrating Airspace Assurance: AI–Cyber Fusion Keeps Drones and Daily Life Moving
By: Dawn Zoldi Most discussions about uncrewed aircraft protection still dwell on individual tools, such as a sensor here, a jammer there with artificial intelligence (AI) somewhere in the mix…
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…
FAA Sharpens Drone Rules for First Responders With New BVLOS, SGI and Stadium Tools
By: Dawn Zoldi The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been busy updating the rules for how police, fire and emergency management agencies fly drones. At the DRONERESPONDERS NACON, FAA leaders…
Force Multiplier: How LiveU Delivers Resilient Live Video for Public Safety Teams
By: Dawn Zoldi LiveU turns fragmented feeds from drones, vehicles and body‑worn devices into a single, resilient, real‑time picture for public safety teams, even when networks are congested, degraded or…
No Blind Spots: Building Real Airspace Awareness for Low‑Altitude Fliers
Airspace has increasingly become a contested, crowded and data-rich domain where public safety, national security and commercial opportunity all converge. For the panelists gathered at the recent DRONERESPONDERS NACON, a…
Orchestrating Airspace Assurance: AI–Cyber Fusion Keeps Drones and Daily Life Moving
By: Dawn Zoldi Most discussions about uncrewed aircraft protection still dwell on individual tools, such as a sensor here, a jammer there with artificial intelligence (AI) somewhere in the mix…
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…
BRINC Unveils Guardian, Launching the Next Era of Drone as First Responder
Guardian delivers 24/7 operations, unmatched imaging, Starlink connectivity, and more to help public safety agencies respond to 911 calls and save lives. SEATTLE, WA – March 24, 2026 – BRINC,…
FAA Sharpens Drone Rules for First Responders With New BVLOS, SGI and Stadium Tools
By: Dawn Zoldi The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been busy updating the rules for how police, fire and emergency management agencies fly drones. At the DRONERESPONDERS NACON, FAA leaders…
Public Safety Drones: BVLOS, LTE and Counter‑UAS Tech Impacts On Low‑Altitude Security
By: Dawn Zoldi Public safety agencies increasingly depend on drones for a wide variety of missions. With the passage of the SAFER Skies Act, they’re now beginning to pair those…
CNA Turns Emerging Tech into Trustworthy Tools for First Responders
By: Dawn Zoldi Today “public safety tech” ranges from drone‑as‑first‑responder (DFR) to AI‑driven analytics dashboards. Agencies now face the hard question as to which tools will actually help incident commanders…
ExLabs Pushes Private Sector Role in Planetary Defense as Apophis Asteroid Approaches Earth
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 9, 2026) — ExLabs, a commercial deep-space exploration company, will highlight the growing role of private companies in planetary defense ahead of asteroid Apophis’ historic 2029…
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…
VICTUS Technologies Raises Seed Round to Advance Contested Autonomy Platform
Mar 25, 2026, 15:46 ET Funding to accelerate hardware-agnostic software for autonomous systems operating without GPS WASHINGTON, March 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VICTUS Technologies, a contested autonomy company, today announced…
Commercial UAV Expo 2026 Sneak Peek: An Industry Ready to Execute
By: Matt Collins, Content Manager for the Commercial UAV Portfolio at Diversified Communications Commercial UAV Expo will return to Las Vegas from September 1–3, 2026, and we are excited to…
VIAVI Partners with Ground Control to Enable Assured Maritime Vessel Tracking and Navigation in GNSS-Denied Environments
Chandler, Ariz., April 2, 2026 – VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced its partnership with satellite communications and positioning solutions provider Ground Control to integrate its Secure µPNT™ STL-1000 into the RockFLEET Assured asset tracking and…
Virtual Sky High Immersion: Aviation Training Gets Real With XR
By Capt. Fahad ibne Masood, MRAeS, Squadron Leader (R) General aviation, aircraft maintenance, military operations, commercial airlines and emerging aviation all have one thing in common: the need for training…
SpaceLocker Becomes a Satellite Operator and Launches Its First Shared Mission
SpaceLocker is entering a new phase. Just one year after its first in-orbit mission, the French pioneer in orbital hosting announces the launch of Out of the Box, its first…
Voyager Awarded Contract with Icarus Robotics: Mission Management As A Service to Enable Next-Gen Robotics Demostration in LEO
DENVER–March 30, 2026–Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) announced a new mission management contract with Icarus Robotics to test their free-flying robotic platform, Joyride, aboard the International Space Station. The contract underscores…
ExLabs Pushes Private Sector Role in Planetary Defense as Apophis Asteroid Approaches Earth
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 9, 2026) — ExLabs, a commercial deep-space exploration company, will highlight the growing role of private companies in planetary defense ahead of asteroid Apophis’ historic 2029…
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….
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…
Orchestrating Airspace Assurance: AI–Cyber Fusion Keeps Drones and Daily Life Moving
By: Dawn Zoldi Most discussions about uncrewed aircraft protection still dwell on individual tools, such as a sensor here, a jammer there with artificial intelligence (AI) somewhere in the mix…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Drones, Data and Digital Twins: The Spatial Intelligence Rewiring Airports and Ports
By: Dahlia Kopycienski At the world’s busiest gateways, behind the scenes, high‑fidelity geospatial data, live sensor feeds and drone‑enabled 3D models have evolved airports and ports into deeply digital operating…
Cross-Platform Drone Training: Prepare Now for Multi-Domain Operations
By Bronwyn Morgan, AG Ambassador, Training and Education In both the combat and commercial operational environments, air, sea, land and increasingly cyber and space, must operate seamlessly. For this reason,…
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US Space Force selects L3Harris to strengthen America’s defense with advanced space surveillance
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 7, 2026 — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to sustain and modernize critical ground systems,…
ExLabs Pushes Private Sector Role in Planetary Defense as Apophis Asteroid Approaches Earth
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 9, 2026) — ExLabs, a commercial deep-space exploration company, will highlight the growing role of private companies in planetary defense ahead of asteroid Apophis’ historic 2029…
Proven on orbit: L3Harris congratulates Missile Defense Agency for receiving top defense honor for HBTSS
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 8, 2026 — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) congratulates the government and civilian team recognized by the Department of War with the 2025 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award….
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Jamming and/or Spoofing: GNSS Interference Resource Guide
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,…
Report: Indianapolis Downtown Heliport 2024 Assessment Shows Why 8A4 Must Remain Open
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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Kimberly Benson & Dave Krause, UAS Center at SBD | Dawn of Autonomy | Episode 117
On this week’s episode of Dawn of Autonomy, part of the “UTM and Infrastructure” series sponsored by Airspace Link, the focus turns to California’s Inland Empire and the UAS Center…
AGN Live! Space Foundation Space Symposium 2026
Autonomy Global Network is heading to Colorado Springs for a special AGN LIVE! stream from Space Symposium. Join host Dawn Zoldi in conversation with leaders from Carahsoft, Lockheed Martin, Epsilon3,…
Manoel Coelho & Samuel Salomao, Speedbird Aero | Dawn of Autonomy | Episode 116
On this week’s episode of Dawn of Autonomy, our “UTM and Infrastructure” month—sponsored by Airspace Link—turns to the front lines of drone logistics with guests Manoel Coelho, CEO of Speedbird…