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Improving Police Public Safety Search Capability in Scotland with GIS

When Glasgow hosted the 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP26) climate summit, Police Scotland had to secure one of the largest and most complex events the country had...Read More

Vietnam’s Port Digital Twins: Portcoast Leverages Reality Capture And AI To Redesign Maritime Operations

As Vietnam races to double its cargo capacity by 2030, Portcoast shapes how ports are planned, built and run. Portcoast, an engineering consulting firm, touches on the entire marine project...Read More

AI for AAM: How CNA Designed LLM Agents for Strategic State Aviation Planning

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has accelerated from concept to demonstration as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) rolls out. The need...Read More

Data To Decisions: NIFC’s GIS Standards Provide A Model For Wildfire Operations

Wildfires may look familiar on the ground, but the information environment around every incident has changed beyond recognition. Crews still dig hand lines and use burnout operations, yet today every...Read More

Echodyne’s Mission-First Radar for Counter-UAS and Airspace Awareness

Security professionals across every sector seem to be asking the same question this year: what is actually flying over our heads? Madelyne Loftin has spent her career answering that question...Read More

Required Navigation Performance: Commercial Drone Ops Should Use the FAA’s Existing Playbook to Scale

The airspace demands predictability. That means situational awareness grounded in shared understanding, behaviors, standards and regulation. Commercial drone operators trying to scale beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) are learning...Read More

Countering World Cup Drones: How FIFA 2026 Became A Live-Fire Test for the New CUAS Imperative

Counter‑unmanned aircraft systems (counter‑UAS / CUAS) moved from policy on paper to operational reality at the FIFA World Cup 2026. Repeated small UAS incursions over stadiums and fan zones forced...Read More
Commercial UAV 2026 returns to the Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas this year from September 1-3.

Commercial UAV Expo 2026 Preview: BVLOS, Counter-UAS Policy and AI Take Center Stage in Las Vegas

As the commercial drone industry pushes further into regulated airspace and autonomous operations, Commercial UAV Expo 2026 arrives at a pivotal moment. From September 1-3 at Caesars Forum, more than...Read More

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...Read More

Kaingaroa Tipu’s Intelligent Forest: How GeoAI, UAVs and GIS Power A Living Digital Twin

In New Zealand, Kaingaroa Tipu (KT) has turned a century‑old forest into a testbed for intelligent, sustainable operations, using LiDAR, UAVs, satellite imagery and geoAI to manage every tree like...Read More