Global Spotlights
Commercial UAV Expo Debuts DRONERESPONDERS Program Management Course, Unveils Public Safety Summit Program
New two-day program manager training joins the Public Safety Summit’s agenda spanning Drone as First Responder, fire service, crash-scene applications, and shared-airspace operations, plus a two-part session on counter-UAS lessons...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
Echodyne Opens New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Surging Global Demand for Advanced MESA® Radar
New Washington State facility provides capacity to manufacture more than 30,000 radars annually, strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base KIRKLAND, Wash. – July 9, 2026 – As governments around the world...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
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
Emesent secures $17 million to accelerate autonomous intelligence platform
8 July 2026: Emesent, an autonomous mapping and robotics company, today announced $17 million (USD) in total new funding to accelerate development of its Cortex AI autonomy platform, expand its Aura...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
GeoCue Announces TrueView LiDAR Payload Compatibility with Real-time Robotics Aerial Drone Platforms
New integration gives customers an NDAA-compliant aerial mapping solution backed by advanced UAS technology, TrueView LiDAR and LP360 software HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– GeoCue is pleased to announce that its TrueView LiDAR...Read More
Electra, UrbanV, and Signature Aviation Announce Strategic Collaboration to Unlock New Regional Mobility Ecosystem
Partnership integrates Electra’s regional airplane that can take off and land in 150 feet with UrbanV-Signature’s AAM infrastructure platform, combining next generation vertiports and global network of aviation facilities to...Read More
UNIVITY and TELKOMSAT Future Satellite Connectivity Opportunities
Paris and Jakarta, July 6, 2026 – UNIVITY, a provider of space-based connectivity infrastructure for telecom operators, and Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat), Indonesia’s national satellite operator, have signed a Memorandum...Read More