Enabling Tech
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
Energy Sector Robotics Reaches Inflection Point: Scale or Stall
At the 10th Annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit (EDRS), a panel of senior asset owners from Chevron, Shell, Devon Energy, Imperial Oil, and Dow Chemical, led by Suzanne Lemieux,...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
Emesent secures $17 million to accelerate autonomous intelligence platform
8 July 2026: Emesent, an autonomous mapping and robotics company, today announced $17 million (USD) in total new funding to accelerate development of its Cortex AI autonomy platform, expand its Aura...Read More
Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
The current debate around delivery of the long-delayed UK’s Defence Investment Plan has been framed in overly simplistic terms. Ships versus drones. Steel versus software. Tradition versus innovation. Defence debates...Read More
GeoCue Announces TrueView LiDAR Payload Compatibility with Real-time Robotics Aerial Drone Platforms
New integration gives customers an NDAA-compliant aerial mapping solution backed by advanced UAS technology, TrueView LiDAR and LP360 software HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– GeoCue is pleased to announce that its TrueView LiDAR...Read More
Electra, UrbanV, and Signature Aviation Announce Strategic Collaboration to Unlock New Regional Mobility Ecosystem
Partnership integrates Electra’s regional airplane that can take off and land in 150 feet with UrbanV-Signature’s AAM infrastructure platform, combining next generation vertiports and global network of aviation facilities to...Read More
UNIVITY and TELKOMSAT Future Satellite Connectivity Opportunities
Paris and Jakarta, July 6, 2026 – UNIVITY, a provider of space-based connectivity infrastructure for telecom operators, and Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat), Indonesia’s national satellite operator, have signed a Memorandum...Read More
GPS Lies: Autonomous Systems Need to Navigate a World That Can’t Be Trusted
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 GEOINT Symposium, a panel of defense technologists, geospatial innovators, and autonomy engineers discussed how the navigation assumptions built into most autonomous systems are already...Read More
Large UAS Over Critical Infrastructure: What It Really Takes to Get It Right
The energy sector has spent years watching drone technology evolve from a novelty into a genuine operational tool. But moving from Group 1 multicopters to large, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft operating...Read More
