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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...Read More
DronesQuad’s High-Level Product Safety Criteria: A Bet on Cross-Border UAS Certification
Most people in the drone industry have never heard of “DronesQuad” (DsQ), an unofficial coordination group, which has operated behind-the-scenes as a semi-formal, working level coordination channel among the “big...Read More
Carahsoft Drones In Public Sector Summit Highlights Law Enforcement Drone, C-UAS Adoption in NCR
Police agencies across the National Capital Region (NCR) say that drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs and counter-UAS operations (c-UAS) have become part of everyday law enforcement infrastructure. Speaking at Carahsoft’s inaugural Drones...Read More
Motorola Solutions Closes $1.5B D-Fend Acquisition: Counter-UAS Has Become a Public Safety Essential
Motorola Solutions has completed its $1.5 billion acquisition of D-Fend Solutions, closing a deal first announced in June 2026 and confirming that counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) have moved well beyond...Read More
Two Clocks, Two Directions: What the Mineral Order Means for Drones
President Trump signed Executive Order 14415, “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials,” on July 20, 2026. One day later, the FCC gave much of...Read More
Robin Radar Scales U.S. Counter-Drone Mission With Marine Corps Discipline
Robin Radar continues to move fast to close a widening gap in North American airspace defense, and the person driving that expansion built his instincts for urgent problem-solving in the...Read More
When Drones Mix With Hospital Heliports: 2209 Must Account for Realities of Emergency Medical Aviation
When a helicopter air ambulance transports a critically ill or injured patient, every second counts. At hospital heliports, some of those seconds occur in one of the most demanding portions...Read More
Inside EASA’s Plan to Simplify Europe’s Drone Rules and Speed Up Cross-Border Flights
Europe’s drone industry stands on the precipice of unlocking scaled operations without lowering safety standards. Three senior officials from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) laid out exactly how...Read More
Part 108 Solves Permission; UTM Still Has to Solve Scale
The countdown to Part 108 has been underway for a while. But soon enough the drone industry will discover that winning permission to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)...Read More
Drone Law in 2026: What Section 2209, NDAA Rules, and Part 108 Mean for Your Operations
Anyone who has tried to keep pace with drone law this year has probably experienced closing one browser tab on a new FAA proposal and having three more open in...Read More