AI in Israeli Satellite to Customer in South America
Israeli intelligence satellite-based with AI Israeli company ImageSat International (ISI), has signed a two-year agreement worth approximately US$3.5 million with a customer in Latin America. Under the agreement, ISI will…
AI Dramatically Enhances the Efficiency of X-Ray Security Machines
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Counter-UAS at Home: Air Base Defense Now Depends on Policy, Trust and Autonomy
“For decades, American air and space power has often operated from a position of sanctuary. Those days are over. We can no longer treat point defense as a side hustle….
Auterion Introduces Nemyx Vertical Launch System for Drones from Any Vendor
Electric elevator design fits 30% more drones than launchers without one and launches interceptors, 10-inch FPVs and mid-range loitering munitions from the same system ARLINGTON, Va., October 5, 2026. Auterion today…
Building Digital Fortresses: How Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Rules Are Reshaping Autonomous Systems
Cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought for drones and autonomous vehicles. It is the foundation that determines whether these systems stay safe, lawful and mission ready. That was the message…
Robox AI New Configurable Video Intelligence Platform Transforms Existing Camera Infrastructure Into Real-Time Actionable Business Intelligence
Combines Edge-Based AI, Configurable Detection Models & Ongoing Capability Development Evolves with Changing Business, Safety & Loss-Prevention Challenges Connects Detection, Alerts, Response, Resolution, Reporting, Analytics & Accountability Los Angeles, CA,…
AI Festival unveils its 2027 theme: the challenge of the new AI era is to orchestrate the intelligence ecosystem
Bologna, Italy, September 28, 2026. Orchestrating Intelligence – Where Humans & AI play in Symphony is the theme of the fourth edition of AI Festival, the International Festival on Artificial…
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…
Drone Industry Experts Tackle Drone Swarms, Heavy Lift and Uncrewed Cargo Flight
Autonomy Global Network’s Full Crew podcast gathered three drone industry leaders for Episode 84 in a conversation that moved from offshore helicopter conversions to battlefield swarm warfare and heavy lift…
Nellis Air Force Base Renews UNIFY.C2 Contract Following Successful Year-Long Counter-UAS Evaluation
Renewed contract reinforces the value of vendor-neutral sensor integration and a unified common operating picture for Counter-UAS operations DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, October 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UNIFY.C2 announced today that Nellis Air…
Counter-UAS at Home: Air Base Defense Now Depends on Policy, Trust and Autonomy
“For decades, American air and space power has often operated from a position of sanctuary. Those days are over. We can no longer treat point defense as a side hustle….
Auterion Introduces Nemyx Vertical Launch System for Drones from Any Vendor
Electric elevator design fits 30% more drones than launchers without one and launches interceptors, 10-inch FPVs and mid-range loitering munitions from the same system ARLINGTON, Va., October 5, 2026. Auterion today…
Department of War Orders Faster Counter-UAS Fielding, Puts JIATF-401 at Center of Reform
The Department of War has ordered a broad overhaul of counter-UAS approval processes, directing components to cut delays in cybersecurity, spectrum, safety and legal reviews that have allegedly slowed the…
How Drones Are Changing Modern Warfare According to Defense and Industry Leaders at Carahsoft’s First Drones in Public Sector Summit
Carahsoft Technology Corp. held its inaugural Drones in Public Sector Summit on September 9, 2026, at its Conference and Collaboration Center in Reston, Virginia. The event drew government officials and…
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…
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…
Small Company, National Reach: How SRS Builds UAS Capability From the Ground Up
The drone industry loves a headline. From announcements about new aircraft and fresh funding rounds to autonomy breakthroughs and beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) approvals, the announcements flood industry…
Drone Industry Experts Tackle Drone Swarms, Heavy Lift and Uncrewed Cargo Flight
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Tulip Tech Battery Systems Advance Resilience of the Free World Through Autonomous Power
As drones, ground robots and uncrewed maritime systems take on higher-stakes missions, power has become a defining operational constraint. On a recent Dawn of Autonomy episode, Tulip Tech Founder and…
LiveU and Airwise Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Solution for Public Safety Situational Awareness
The integrated solution pairs LiveU’s resilient, low-latency video encoding at the edge and bonded IP transport with Airwise’s fleet and pilot management, airspace awareness platform and scalable video distribution, giving…
FAA Funds Drone Research to Support Safe Integration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday October 5th, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it awarded $12 million to 19 companies for drone research and testing projects that will help safely…
Auterion Introduces Nemyx Vertical Launch System for Drones from Any Vendor
Electric elevator design fits 30% more drones than launchers without one and launches interceptors, 10-inch FPVs and mid-range loitering munitions from the same system ARLINGTON, Va., October 5, 2026. Auterion today…
A Line on a Map Is Not an Airspace Security System: Critical Infrastructure Needs Detection, Not Just Designation
Nearly ten years after Congress told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to build a process for restricting drones near sensitive facilities, and in the face of a mounting record of…
Gauntlet II Results Redefine How the Pentagon Buys Drones
Neros recently became the only company to crack both leaderboards in the Pentagon’s second Gauntlet. That distinction captures how narrow the margins have gotten as the Drone Dominance Program continues…
FAA’s MOSAIC Rule Opens the Sky to Personal eVTOLs, Reshapes AAM’s Regulatory Map
The FAA’s Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rule fundamentally changes how the agency classifies, certifies and regulates light aircraft. Regulators originally built it to expand traditional general aviation, but…
NBAA-BACE to Showcase New AAM Innovations Defining On-Demand Air Transport
Contact: Dan Hubbard, 202-431-5970, dhubbard@nbaa.org Washington, DC, Oct. 6, 2026 – From the Las Vegas Convention Center’s towering entryway atrium, to the show’s Emerging Tech Pavilion, the newest aircraft defining the future…
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…
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…
Advanced Air Mobility Institute Appoints Dean Rudolph to Board of Directors
Boston, MA. — September 17, 2026 — The Advanced Air Mobility Institute (AAMI), a nonprofit industry organization advancing the responsible commercialization of eVTOL aircraft, autonomous flight, and drone operations, today…
Scaling the UK’s Skies: Satellite Communication As the Cornerstone of AAM
The global aviation sector stands on the precipice of its most significant transformation in decades. Until now, the skies have been the exclusive domain of crewed, commercially scheduled or military…
Wingcopter Launches Tactical Reconnaissance Drone With Up to Six Hours of Flight Time
The Wingcopter 262 offers a tactical range of 150 kilometres and a flight time of up to six hours. The modular all-electric VTOL aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of…
OpEd: The Midair Collision Warning Systems Miss, and How to Close the Gap
A midair collision between two firefighting helicopters in Greece this August, which resulted in a tragic loss of life, exposed a critical gap in aviation safety. Current collision avoidance technology…
Tesla Has an Internal Document Called “Radar Saves Us,” NHTSA Wants to Know Why
Tesla has an internal document called “Radar Saves Us.” On July 2, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent Tesla a letter demanding to know how that document was…
German Armed Forces Commissions Quantum Systems and Daimler Truck to Develop and Test Unmanned Convoy Solutions for Military Logistics
Gilching, June 16, 2026 – As part of the Interoperable Robotic Convoy (InterRoC) research project, the German Armed Forces has commissioned Quantum Systems to develop and test unmanned convoy solutions for…
INKAS® Unveils New Ground and Air Systems, Expanding Its Integrated Defense Portfolio for Multi-Domain Operations
May 28, 2026 – Today at CANSEC 2026, INKAS® Defense and Aerospace, a Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer and systems integrator, unveils two new solutions to its product ecosystem: the INKAS® MLTV (Modular Light Tactical Vehicle) platform and the INKAS® ANURI Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). …
Karsan Reaches 330 Million Euro Turnover in 2025, 67% of which Comes from Electric Models!
Karsan, the world’s technology-oriented mobility brand in next-generation public transportation, increased its turnover by 11% to 330 million Euros in 2025. Karsan, which generated 220 million Euros of turnover from…
Embention Awarded in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Spain
February 17, 2026 Sustained growth in critical aerospace technology The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program identifies and grants visibility to the most dynamic companies within the Spanish tech ecosystem. To…
Elbit Systems Selects Lowental Hybrid for World’s First True Hybrid UAV Propulsion System
Israeli Defense Giant Signs Decade-Long Partnership for Game-Changing UAVTechnology Doron Fridman, CEO of Lowental Hybrid Rehovot, Israel – January 29, 2026 – Lowental Hybrid Ltd., a global innovator in hybridUAV…
Driving Autonomy, Defending Stability: AVs, National Security and the New AV Framework
By: Dawn Zoldi Automated vehicles (AVs) and automated driving systems (ADS) are colliding with national security concerns in ways that will shape both America’s roads and its strategic resilience. At…
Torc Robotics: Steering Truck Autonomy Into the Mainstream, From the Rubber to the Roof
By: Dawn Zoldi This year’s CES highlighted that AV truck autonomy has moved from concept to concrete business tool, and Torc Robotics aims to position itself at the center of…
Small Company, National Reach: How SRS Builds UAS Capability From the Ground Up
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Department of War Announces $350 Million in Quantum Computing Initiatives
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Tulip Tech Battery Systems Advance Resilience of the Free World Through Autonomous Power
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Nellis Air Force Base Renews UNIFY.C2 Contract Following Successful Year-Long Counter-UAS Evaluation
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AI Dramatically Enhances the Efficiency of X-Ray Security Machines
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NBAA-BACE to Showcase New AAM Innovations Defining On-Demand Air Transport
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LiveU and Airwise Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Solution for Public Safety Situational Awareness
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Systems Selected for JIATF 401 Directed-Energy Counter-Drone Pilot Program
IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Oct. 5, 2026 – The Department of War announced the directed-energy systems selected following the Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s (JIATF-401) counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) directed energy…
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…
GeoAI Is Becoming the Nervous System for Robots, Panel Says at Geo Gov Summit 2026
Robots continue to multiply across factories, campuses and disaster zones. But the machines are only as smart as the maps and models feeding them. That was one of the key…
The MAVLink-M Integration Hackathon: Why Interoperability Is Becoming the Warfighter’s Competitive Advantage
At the MAVLink-Military Integration Hackathon, sponsored by Auterion and the DroneCode Foundation, teams from smaller companies and specialized builders integrated autonomous systems that would ordinarily take months to coordinate. Across…
Drones, Robotics and the Future of Construction
The construction industry has never been short on innovation. From GPS-guided equipment to building information modeling (BIM), each technological advance has changed how companies plan and build projects. Today, in…
When the Machine Decides: Inside the Legal Battle Over AI in Autonomous Systems
The gap between what artificial intelligence (AI) can do and what the law says it should do keeps widening. An expert “Minds and Machines” panel at Law-Tech Connect explored that…
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,…
Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
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AI Governance in Robotics: Smart Organizations Scale Autonomous Systems Without Scaling Liability
The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in robotics delivers extraordinary operational advantages. It also introduces legal and reputational risks that organizations can no longer afford to underestimate. As AI…
Quantum Systems launches Maritime domain, introducing Seavex and Subvex
Quantum Systems is expanding into the maritime domain, connecting autonomous operations above and below the waterline with its existing capabilities in the air and on land. With the launch, the company…
WaiV Robotics Completes World’s First Autonomous Offshore Landing On A Moving Vessel At Night
WaiV’s two-day offshore demonstrations moved autonomous drone recovery beyond controlled environments against real maritime conditions, testing the system against darkness, changing seas, and unstable deck conditions. London, UK, September 9,…
High Interest In The Elbit Seagull
Major military conflicts may arise from seaways being blocked to commercial traffic. In the Strait of Hormuz, this is already happening. No wonder navies and defense forces across Europe, and…
Elbit UAV Carrier
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Drone Threat To Navy Ships Brought Sales Of TYPHOON To A Peak
Aerial threats to navy ships, including armed drones, have brought the demand for the Rafael Typhoon remotely operated weapon station to a new peak. A new order from the Israeli…
Elistair and Exail Bring Persistent Aerial Surveillance to Unmanned Surface Vessels
Lyon, France – July 21st, 2026. Elistair and Exail have partnered to integrate the Khronos automated tethered DroneBox on Exail’s DriX unmanned surface vessel (USV), giving maritime operators a persistent…
Quantum Systems selected for Japan’s Counter-UAS Proof-of-Concept Program
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Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
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World Space Week 2026 Celebrates the “Rocket Revolution”
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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…
Commercial Demand for Microgravity Drug Discovery Accelerates as Exobiosphere and Voyager Add Two Missionsto the ISS
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Terran Orbital Promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the promotion of Margherita…
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