North America

Motorola Solutions Closes $1.5B D-Fend Acquisition: Counter-UAS Has Become a Public Safety Essential

Motorola Solutions has completed its $1.5 billion acquisition of D-Fend Solutions, closing a deal first announced in June 2026 and confirming that counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) have moved well beyond...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

Robin Radar Scales U.S. Counter-Drone Mission With Marine Corps Discipline

Robin Radar continues to move fast to close a widening gap in North American airspace defense, and the person driving that expansion built his instincts for urgent problem-solving in the...Read More

Advanced Energy Launches Ultra-Ruggedized 160 W AC-DC Power Supply for Extreme Environments

DENVER, Sept. 24, 2026 — Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS), a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions, today launches the ruggedized DF150 160...Read More

GCF and MSSA Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Global NTN Certification and Interoperability

New Jersey – September 24, 2026 – The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize cooperation on supporting and...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

Commercial Demand for Microgravity Drug Discovery Accelerates as Exobiosphere and Voyager Add Two Missionsto the ISS

DENVER and HOUSTON – September 24, 2026 /Business Wire/ – Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) and Exobiosphere today announced two additional research campaigns aboard the International Space Station, expanding an agreement...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
GAO

GAO: FAA Lacks Real-Time Detection for Spoofing, Jamming Threats to Aircraft Communications

By: Dawn Zoldi A new watchdog report finds the Federal Aviation Administration has not finished the risk assessments or built the real-time monitoring tools needed to defend the national airspace...Read More

Electra Completes Groundbreaking Flights at Commercial Airport Using Helicopter-Style Instrument Procedures and Novel Take Off and Landing Areas for its Ultra Short Airplane

Flights under the FAA integration pilot program lay the groundwork for future operations for Electra’s flagship EL9 and help establish a national blueprint for AAM instrument flight networks Manassas, VA...Read More