Launch Pad for Drones at Wake Forest Baptist Wake Forest Baptist Health Wake Forest Baptist Health has begun drone deliveries of medicines and blood. As soon as a patient checks in at a Wake Forest Baptist Health infusion clinic, their specific medicine is created at the hospital and flown over …
Read More »KnackForge Partners with FIRST iZ for 911 Autonomous Drone P…
Source: KnackForge Texas-based tech firm KnackForge this week announced a partnership with drone company FIRST iZ to release a patent-pending UAS system. The system will deploy drones autonomously by 911 operators by leveraging KnackForge’s control systems hardware as well as software for the FIRST Port ecosystem. KnackForge will oversee the …
Read More »Essex Police Share What They’ve Learned
There are tremendous benefits realized from using drones in law enforcement: in a good program, drones enhance safety for both officers and the community. Now, early adopters of drones in law enforcement are able to share their results and help other departments get started. In the U.K., the Essex Police …
Read More »The Real Deal: UAE to Get US Made F-35s, Drones, in Exchange…
Photo Credit: Alan Wilson via Flickr Royal Saudi Air Force Hawks team, July 7, 2011 According to Israeli media, citing American and Emirati sources, the UAE ruler was persuaded to make his historic move by a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the US, which includes F-35s, the most advanced unmanned …
Read More »A Small U.S. Town Offers a Case Study
image: Adorama Business Solutions Law enforcement drones are a new, and sometimes controversial, tool for public safety agencies. With the increasing need for social distancing and the usual budgetary stressors, local police departments are being forced to do more with less manpower. The town of Linn, Wisconsin worked with a …
Read More »Drone Near Air Force 1? If That’s True – or Not
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brandon Esau News and Commentary. Was there a drone near Air Force 1 as President Trump flew into Andrews Air Force Base? If so, there’s a problem for the drone industry. And if not, there’s a problem for the drone industry. Last week, …
Read More »DJI Job Cuts: Realignment or Just Trimming Down?
Recent reports of DJI job cuts leave it unclear if the company is going through a major realignment in view of political pressures – or just trimming it’s staff a bit to manageable levels after several years of fast expansion. A Reuters report says that the world’s largest manufacturer, DJI, …
Read More »Army Futures ‘tech cell’ anticipates the evolution of war
Self-guiding drone swarms, course-correcting ammunition, AI-driven sensor networks, self-healing armor and armies of armed robots are all things expected to characterize warfare for decades to come. What isn’t expected? That is the fundamental question now being taken up by an elite unit of scientists with Army Futures Command, a task …
Read More »Pentagon Using Private Contractors in Kenya to Help Launch D…
Africa 14:29 GMT 15.08.2020(updated 14:33 GMT 15.08.2020) Get short URL One US soldier and two Pentagon contractors were killed at a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya in January in an attack carried out by al-Qaeda-affiliated Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab. The US responded to the attack by beefing up its …
Read More »Hi-tech thieves using drones to case out farm and rural Nort…
Rural crime officers fear thieves may be using camera-equipped drones to scout out farms in North Wales. Over the past fortnight four different holdings in Denbighshire have been buzzed by drones with white vans seen nearby. Farmers report watching the drones hovering over their properties for lengthy periods. One was …
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