North America
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
GAO: FAA Lacks Real-Time Detection for Spoofing, Jamming Threats to Aircraft Communications
By: Dawn Zoldi A new watchdog report finds the Federal Aviation Administration has not finished the risk assessments or built the real-time monitoring tools needed to defend the national airspace...Read More
Electra Completes Groundbreaking Flights at Commercial Airport Using Helicopter-Style Instrument Procedures and Novel Take Off and Landing Areas for its Ultra Short Airplane
Flights under the FAA integration pilot program lay the groundwork for future operations for Electra’s flagship EL9 and help establish a national blueprint for AAM instrument flight networks Manassas, VA...Read More
OpenWorks Engineering Expands Into US Market
ASHBURN, Virginia, Sept. 22, 2026 – OpenWorks Engineering, a global leader in C-UAS, air defense, and surveillance technology, today announces the launch of its United States regional headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia,...Read More
Terran Orbital Promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the promotion of Margherita...Read More
Advanced Air Mobility Institute Appoints Dean Rudolph to Board of Directors
Boston, MA. — September 17, 2026 — The Advanced Air Mobility Institute (AAMI), a nonprofit industry organization advancing the responsible commercialization of eVTOL aircraft, autonomous flight, and drone operations, today...Read More
BAE Systems completes successful Critical Design Review for U.S. Space Force missile warning and tracking program
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Sept. 21, 2026 – BAE Systems announced today that it has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the $1.2 billion U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Resilient Missile Warning & Tracking (RMWT)...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
Bringing GIS Indoors: Collaboration Rewires Public Safety Response
The technology behind indoor mapping is no longer the hard part. The hard part is getting people to trust it, fund it and use it every day. And not just...Read More
GeoAI Is Becoming the Nervous System for Robots, Panel Says at Geo Gov Summit 2026
Robots continue to multiply across factories, campuses and disaster zones. But the machines are only as smart as the maps and models feeding them. That was one of the key...Read More
