Public Safety
Geo Week Keynote Examines “A Lake in Crisis: Mapping Utah’s Great Salt Lake”
Keynote Panel to Reveal What New Bathymetric Lidar Data Reveals About One of the West’s Most Threatened Lakes Salt Lake City, UT – [October 6, 2026] — Geo Week announced...Read More
Building the Onion: How MatrixSpace Layers Counter-Drone Defense, From Front Line to Homefront
Nobody owns the sky anymore. That reality anchored a wide-ranging conversation with MatrixSpace, a company whose technology has evolved from a data-networking concept into a core sensing layer now demonstrated...Read More
Carahsoft Drones In Public Sector Summit Highlights Law Enforcement Drone, C-UAS Adoption in NCR
Police agencies across the National Capital Region (NCR) say that drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs and counter-UAS operations (c-UAS) have become part of everyday law enforcement infrastructure. Speaking at Carahsoft’s inaugural Drones...Read More
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
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
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
Bringing GIS Indoors: Collaboration Rewires Public Safety Response
The technology behind indoor mapping is no longer the hard part. The hard part is getting people to trust it, fund it and use it every day. And not just...Read More
The Infrastructure Awakening: GALE Project Rethinks Autonomy From the Ground Up
For much of the past decade, conversations about the drone industry have centered on the aircraft themselves. Manufacturers competed over flight endurance, payload capacity, sensor resolution, and more recently, Beyond...Read More
From Hover to Loiter: Why Canadian Public Safety Agencies Need to Rethink Flight
When a suspect sped off during an Ottawa police pursuit, the department couldn’t keep up. Police Chief Eric Stubbs later noted that, while his department uses drones, it lacked the...Read More
When Skies Turn Orange: Drones Enhance Wildfires Response In Canada and Beyond
Wildfire smoke blanketed Toronto, Chicago and New York this summer, a grim reminder that fires have no international borders. Canada has logged more than 6 million acres burned so far...Read More
