Articles
Flying in the Middle of Somewhere: Cape May County Puts New Jersey on the Drone Map
By Dawn Zoldi When I walked up to the stage to moderate a “fireside chat” about the Cape-Atlantic UAS Test Range panel at Shore to Soar (S2S) 2026, an electric...Read More
The Most Important FAA Drone Safety Day Yet; The Future of the NAS at Stake
By Juan B. Plaza, Autonomy Global Ambassador – Operational Safety Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) holds its fifth consecutive Drone Safety Day (DSD). This year, the stakes are higher...Read More
Former Air Force Base Becomes UAS Proving Ground: Inside the UAS Center and Norton Test Range at San Bernardino International Airport
By: Dawn Zoldi Some of the most consequential stories in aviation happen at places most people have never heard of. The San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) is one of those...Read More
NASA’s Moon Base No Longer Science Fiction; Industry Has Four Weeks to Get Ready
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium, NASA’s Moon Base Program Executive Carlos Garcia-Galan and Redwire Space President Mike Gold laid out an unambiguous vision for a permanent human...Read More
Kratos Tracks Iran’s Satellite Jamming Campaign and the Oil Smuggling Network Behind It
By: Dawn Zoldi As Tehran continues to wage an active electronic warfare (EW) campaign against U.S. and Israeli drone and missile operations, Kratos Defense is tracking it every step of...Read More
Lockheed Martin’s Ignite: The Team Racing to Find Life in the Stars and Win the Next War
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 Space Symposium Media Breakfast on April 13 in Colorado Springs, Lockheed Martin’s space division offered a rare look inside Ignite, its internal research and...Read More
L3Harris Advances Space Domain Awareness in a Domain No One Can Afford to Lose
By: Dawn Zoldi Just as space has moved from a passive communications backdrop to an active warfighting domain, L3Harris Technologies burst forth on the 2026 Space Symposium scene with concrete...Read More
From Brazil to the World: Speedbird Aero Builds the Airspace Infrastructure To Make Drone Delivery Scale
Certified aircraft, purpose-built droneports, and a battle-tested UTM stack have turned this Latin American startup into a global logistics force. It plans to launch in the United States next. By:...Read More
Beyond Line of Sight, Beyond One-Off Flights: How SRS Scales Utility Inspections
By: Dawn Zoldi Sentinel Robotic Solutions (SRS) doesn’t treat utility inspections as a one-off drone service. It has built a BVLOS-enabled inspection and training ecosystem designed to scale across some...Read More
Closing the Data Gap: Why Digital Weather Infrastructure Is the Foundation of the Low-Altitude Economy
By: Clint Harper, Autonomy Global Ambassador – AAM The advanced air mobility (AAM) industry has made remarkable strides. Vehicles navigating the certification process, vertiport networks are being contemplated, and regulatory...Read More