CC BY-SA 3.0 PG&E Obtains California-wide BVLOS Waiver by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Public safety and critical infrastructure UAS consulting group Skyfire Consulting announced that it has successfully assisted Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in acquiring a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) waiver under a Part 107 …

D-Fend Solutions, the leader in radio frequency (RF), cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone takeover technology, is proud to announce that this past quarter, 3Q2022, it sold over $3 million in EnforceAir counter-drone security systems and components to various United States federal security agencies. The agencies span across a range of sectors …

G B_NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0 Altitude Angel Partners with Mopiens for UTM Deployment in South Korea by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Unified Traffic Management (UTM) technology provider Altitude Angel has announced that Mopiens, Inc. and Synerex, Inc. have joined its Global Partnership Programme. Continue reading below, or listen: …

UAV Navigation (a Spanish company specializing in guidance, navigation and control systems for RPAS/UAS) is participating in the OSNMAplus project consortium led by Qascom (an Italian enterprise leading the domain of GNSS authentication). The OSNMAplus project aims to develop services and technologies making use of some of the novel services provided by Galileo, the European (GNSS) …

Dedrone, the market leader in smart airspace security, announced that it has formed a partnership with Axis Communications to incorporate Axis network cameras into Dedrone’s counterdrone command and control (C2) platform, DedroneTracker. With Axis camera integration, Dedrone is now the first counter-UAS (cUAS) company to provide proven  artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine …

FlytBase and Iris Automation Partner for Safe Automated BVLOS Drone-in-a-Box Operations by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Continue reading below, or listen: Enterprise drone autonomy platform provider FlytBase has announced a partnership with safety avionics technology leader Iris Automation that will see the integration of FlytBase’s FlytNow with Iris …

Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:ESLT and TASE: ESLT) (“Elbit Systems”) announced that it was awarded a contract valued at $72 million to supply Hermes™ 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and training capabilities to an international customer. The contract will be performed over a two-year period.  Under the contract, Elbit Systems will supply Hermes 900 …

From Zipline Drone Industry Insights (DRONEII) has named this year’s top drone service providers. Continue reading below, or listen: Winners were divided into two categories.   “…to rank the best drone service companies in the world, we used the size, growth and public attention as reference to determine companies’ performance,” …

Don’t miss Five-Alpha on Dawn of Drones this week, Wednesday November 16 at 11:00 AM EST! Stream below: Rex Alexander, President and CEO of 5-alpha joins Dawn this week on the Dawn of Drones podcast, we continue our “Global Industry Leaders” month, sponsored by MissionGO. Infrastructure will build out the …

In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went on “60 Minutes” to introduce plans for a futuristic-sounding product: drone delivery.  “These are effectively drones but there’s no reason that they can’t be used as delivery vehicles,” Bezos said in the segment. “We’re talking about delivery. There’s an item going into the …