Commercial

Commercial UAV Expo Debuts DRONERESPONDERS Program Management Course, Unveils Public Safety Summit Program

New two-day program manager training joins the Public Safety Summit’s agenda spanning Drone as First Responder, fire service, crash-scene applications, and shared-airspace operations, plus a two-part session on counter-UAS lessons...Read More

Beyond Cope and Avoid: TruWeather’s Mission to Anticipate and Exploit Low-Altitude Weather

Drones and advanced air mobility (AAM) will not scale on aircraft performance alone. They will scale when operators can trust the airspace below 5,000 feet with the same confidence that...Read More
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Echodyne Opens New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Surging Global Demand for Advanced MESA® Radar

New Washington State facility provides capacity to manufacture more than 30,000 radars annually, strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base KIRKLAND, Wash. – July 9, 2026 – As governments around the world...Read More

RULEMAKING WATCH: FAA’s Supersonic Aircraft Draft Rule Goes Live!

Last year the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order instructing the FAA to remove the ban on civil supersonic aircraft flight. On July 2, 2026, the agency officially published a...Read More
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Who Pays for Your Vertiport? Using AIP, AIG and P3 Deals to Turn AAM Plans Into Concrete

You want to be “vertiport ready” when eVTOLs scale, but your capital plan says otherwise. Between grid upgrades, safety geometry and terminal interfaces and Airport Layout Plan (ALP) updates, a...Read More
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Trump’s NSPM-11 Sets New Rules for AI in Defense: What Drone and Autonomy Vendors Must Know Now

The Trump Administration’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy moved decisively forward last month with the issuance of National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 (NSPM-11), a sweeping policy that charts the next phase...Read More

GeoCue Welcomes Steel City Drones as New Distributor for TrueView and LP360 Solutions

Steel City Drones will offer GeoCue TrueView LiDAR systems and LP360 software to help drone professionals expand aerial mapping capabilities. HUNTSVILLE, Al— GeoCue, a leading provider of drone mapping hardware,...Read More

20th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium Returns to Oshkosh

50+ Confirmed Speakers for World’s Longest Running Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Conference Fairfax, Virginia, USA, June 28, 2026 — The 20th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS) returns to Oshkosh, Wisconsin,...Read More
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AI Governance in Robotics: Smart Organizations Scale Autonomous Systems Without Scaling Liability

The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in robotics delivers extraordinary operational advantages. It also introduces legal and reputational risks that organizations can no longer afford to underestimate. As AI...Read More

Detroit Was Never Just About Cars. It’s Always Been About Mobility

During AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026, a different kind of conversation kept surfacing in hotel lobbies, restaurants and walks between sessions. It usually started with some version of the same admission: I...Read More