Drone

A Pentagon initiative for open-source drones is sending ripples beyond the military market. Small military drones will now conform to the new Blue sUAS standard, encouraging suppliers to use software supplied by open-source leaders Auterion. Last week five new drones were cleared for purchase by U.S. military customers under the …

Amid ongoing trade tensions between China and the U.S. that has led to concerns about data privacy for DJI drones, DJI continues to enhance the security of their platform.  Today,  DJI announced that they would make Local Data Mode – a feature that eliminates entirely the need for internet connectivity, completely …

Source: Teal Utah-based drone provider Teal is winging its way into the UAV stratosphere with the recent launch of the Golden Eagle. The American-made drone system provides aerial surveillance and awareness through, what a Teal press release dubs, “scalable, secure, and rugged technology.” A drone provider since 2014, Teal manufactures …

Source: Swift Swift Engineering is banking on the success of the high altitude long endurance (HALE) drone system. In partnership with NASA’s Ames Research Center, Swift recently completed a maiden flight at New Mexico’s Spaceport America. The project also performed a full-system UAS check, as well as validating the drone’s configuration for …

Remote ID and connected drones are critical pieces to realizing the full potential of the drone industry – but the framework must be built to optimize functionality and safety and minimize complexity. Following the company’s selection to help the FAA develop a framework for Remote ID, we caught up with …

QUT researcher Dr Aaron Mcfadyen has mapped air traffic around airports.  Image: QUT/Anthony Weate Airservices and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have inked a partnership to develop an automated and near real-time flight approval system to speed up how quickly drones can operate in the air, particularly during emergencies and …

Source: Bell Aviation giant Bell Aircraft Corporation soared through FAA drone benchmarks, landing beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) status with its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) Citing drone missions that require delivering “goods and information to critical – sometimes inaccessible – locations,” Bell snagged BVLOS to launch autonomous drone flights over …

Source: NOAA It’s not an Ark, but NOAA is charting a new course for aquatic research using autonomous drones. The federal agency recently launched a sea-going sortie of three aquatic drones bound for the Bering Sea. The drone fleet will survey the nation’s largest fish stock and monitor changing weather …

Photo Credit: Courtesy XTEND US soldier with Israeli-made drone Following a joint R&D program led by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), in the Israel Ministry of Defense, together with Israeli company Xtend, and the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), of the U.S. Department of Defense, an …

Americas Lockheed Martin won a $51.9 million contract to exercise options for ship integration and test of the Aegis Weapon System (AWS) for AWS Baselines through Advanced Capability Build (ACB) 16. This option exercise is for Aegis shipboard integration engineering, Aegis test team support, Aegis modernization team engineering support, Ballistic missile …