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GeoCue Marks 20 Years by Expanding Its NDAA-Compliant Drone LiDAR Sensor Ecosystem
GeoCue turns 20 this year, and the company is celebrating the milestone the way it knows best: by adding more sensors to an ecosystem it has spent two decades building....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
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...Read More
OpEd: Weather Superiority for Drone Warfare and Counter-UAS Operations
Sun Tzu told commanders to know the ground and know the weather, and victory would be total. Modern militaries still study his doctrine, yet weather intelligence rarely gets the resources...Read More
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...Read More
Lockheed Martin’s Vectis Drone Nears First Flight Ahead of AFA Air, Space, Cyber
Lockheed Martin is accelerating production of its Vectis collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) and will build four additional prototypes, the company revealed in an exclusive media roundtable, ahead of this week’s...Read More
Moving Past the Stick: Training Pilots for Aircraft That Fly Themselves
Autonomous drones are not eliminating the pilot. They are changing what being a pilot means. The industry needs to rethink how it defines competence. The Operational Transformation At the start...Read More
Techno-Autonomy Takes Flight: TEAL Builds the Connectivity Backbone for BVLOS Drones
Programmable connectivity is the foundation of autonomy itself, according to the co-founder and CEO of TEAL, Robby Hamblet. Hamblet joined the Dawn of Autonomy podcast and spent 45 minutes making...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
Two Skies, One Conversation: How FAA and EASA Are Racing Toward Scalable BVLOS Drone Operations
On the final morning of Commercial UAV Expo, the drone industry got something rare: the FAA and EASA in the same room, on the same stage, answering the same questions...Read More