Drones
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Two Clocks, Two Directions: What the Mineral Order Means for Drones
President Trump signed Executive Order 14415, “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials,” on July 20, 2026. One day later, the FCC gave much of...Read More
UNIFY.C2 and Squarehead Technology Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Passive, Multi-Sensor Counter-UAS Detection at Scale
DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, September 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UNIFY.C2 today announced a strategic partnership with Squarehead Technology, a global leader in advanced acoustic technology for passive drone detection and tracking. The partnership...Read More
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...Read More
Inside EASA’s Plan to Simplify Europe’s Drone Rules and Speed Up Cross-Border Flights
Europe’s drone industry stands on the precipice of unlocking scaled operations without lowering safety standards. Three senior officials from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) laid out exactly how...Read More
From Proof of Concept to Critical Infrastructure: DroneX 2026 Set to Showcase the Next Phase of Europe’s Autonomy Revolution
London, UK – 22 September 2026 – – As autonomous systems become increasingly embedded across critical infrastructure, public services, defence and industry, the distinction between commercial and sovereign capability is rapidly...Read More
Part 108 Solves Permission; UTM Still Has to Solve Scale
The countdown to Part 108 has been underway for a while. But soon enough the drone industry will discover that winning permission to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)...Read More
