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BVLOS in Energy: What Operators Are Doing Now and How They’re Preparing for What’s Next
The pathway to routine beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations in the energy sector is no longer a question of whether, but of how. The gap between where...Read More
Beyond Cope and Avoid: TruWeather’s Mission to Anticipate and Exploit Low-Altitude Weather
Drones and advanced air mobility (AAM) will not scale on aircraft performance alone. They will scale when operators can trust the airspace below 5,000 feet with the same confidence that...Read More
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,...Read More
RULEMAKING WATCH: FAA’s Supersonic Aircraft Draft Rule Goes Live!
Last year the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order instructing the FAA to remove the ban on civil supersonic aircraft flight. On July 2, 2026, the agency officially published a...Read More
Unlocking a Frozen Force: Why Autonomy Is the UK’s Only Way Forward
The current debate around delivery of the long-delayed UK’s Defence Investment Plan has been framed in overly simplistic terms. Ships versus drones. Steel versus software. Tradition versus innovation. Defence debates...Read More
The SAFER SKIES Act’s Interim Final Rule: What SLTT Agencies and Industry Need to Know
A little over six months after Congress passed the SAFER SKIES Act (the Act), DOJ and DHS have released the rulebook that authorizes state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law...Read More
Drone Wars: How Cheap FPV Swarms Broke Air Defense in the Middle East and Ukraine
The age of the drone wars has arrived, and every serious military on the planet now watches the same two battle laboratories in Ukraine and the Middle East. From the...Read More
Who Pays for Your Vertiport? Using AIP, AIG and P3 Deals to Turn AAM Plans Into Concrete
You want to be “vertiport ready” when eVTOLs scale, but your capital plan says otherwise. Between grid upgrades, safety geometry and terminal interfaces and Airport Layout Plan (ALP) updates, a...Read More
GPS Lies: Autonomous Systems Need to Navigate a World That Can’t Be Trusted
By: Dawn Zoldi At the 2026 GEOINT Symposium, a panel of defense technologists, geospatial innovators, and autonomy engineers discussed how the navigation assumptions built into most autonomous systems are already...Read More
Large UAS Over Critical Infrastructure: What It Really Takes to Get It Right
The energy sector has spent years watching drone technology evolve from a novelty into a genuine operational tool. But moving from Group 1 multicopters to large, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft operating...Read More