Drones
OpEd: How To Move Beyond the Tech and Into Operational Readiness
Aircraft, sensors, communications systems, digital data exchanges, digital models, and operating software support useful drone services today within defined operating conditions and approvals. We’re close to the next rulemaking enabling...Read More
OpEd: The New Defense Economy Requires Building American Deterrence at Speed and Scale
For at least a few generations, discussions about America’s defense industrial base have centered on the Department of War (DOW) and major defense contractors (the Primes). That partnership won wars...Read More
Industry Headwinds and Record Attendance: Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Review
Last month, professionals from across the commercial UAS industry came together for the annual Commercial UAV Expo. This year’s event was back in Las Vegas, Nevada, and came at a...Read More
GrandSKY’s Next Frontier: Turning Air Domain Awareness Into Everyday Drone Operations
Seeing a drone does not tell you what it is doing. Completing a delivery does not establish a logistics network. And demonstrating a technology does not necessarily make it ready...Read More
Warren County Community College Launches Counter-UAS Concentration, Signals Growing Demand for Drone Defense Training
Warren County Community College, one of the most credentialed drone programs at the community college level in the country, is stepping into one of the fastest-growing corners of the drone...Read More
SPARC AI Signs MOU for European Fixed-Wing UAV Integration and Advances Commercial Strategy in the Middle East
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 27, 2026 — SPARC AI Inc. (CSE: SPAI; OTCQB: SPAIF; Frankfurt: 5OV0) (“SPARC AI” or the “Company”), a defense technology company, today announced that it has entered into...Read More
20th Annual UAS Summit & Expo Celebrates Milestone Anniversary with Largest Event in Its History
Nearly 800 attendees, a record 67 exhibitors and prominent federal, military and industry leaders highlight two decades of UAS innovation in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Grand Forks, ND – (October 2026)...Read More
The Desert Ballet: What Arizona’s Living Landscape Could Teach Advanced Air Mobility About Innovation
The influential urbanist Jane Jacobs described Hudson Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, as “the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet.” From her window, she watched shopkeepers, schoolchildren, delivery...Read More
Meet Hextronics’ Helios Drone, Part of Its New Eclipse Integrated Drone Dock Stack
Miami-based autonomy company Hextronics introduced Eclipse, a vertically integrated drone dock and aircraft system, during an Exhibitor Showcase at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas. Founder and CEO Curtis Lary...Read More
When Footage Becomes Outcomes: Optimizing Drone Data at Scale
For most of the last decade, a drone flight ended the same way it started, with raw footage. A pilot flew a route, a camera or sensor captured imagery and...Read More
