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DJI drone. (Mark Colborn) The Department of Homeland Security is working toward conducting separate series of evaluations later this year of systems that can be used to detect, track, identify, and in some cases, defeat drones flying in areas where they don’t belong. By early this summer, the DHS Science …

Japanese drone provider Terra Drone Corporation has teamed up with Japanese telecommunications and security firms, KDDI and SECOM, to demonstrate a new drone security system that can detect and identify suspicious people at one of Japan’s largest stadiums. Integrating Terra Drone’s drone software solutions and KDDI’s Smart Drone octocopters, the UAVs …

Its sanctioned economy is in tatters. Its kleptocracy is entrenching its grip on power. Its president is eyeing the Baltic States and Ukraine. But, amid it all, Russia still thinks it has what it takes to build a hypersonic space shuttle. The Russian News agency RIA Novosti reports the new …

The new year is taking off rapidly for Toronto-based Drone Delivery Canada. Over the past two weeks, the company made three major announcements. On Jan. 30, DDC publicized new test flights for its latest cargo delivery drone, the Falcon. With a lifting capability of 50 pounds and a wingspan of …

ATLANTA, Feb. 4, 2019 — (PRNewswire) — Most of the attention on drones around the NFL Championship Game in Atlanta has been focused on the dozen or so drone operators snagged by the FBI for illegally flying ahead of the big game. But drones were also being used to help …

If you were one of the millions of people around the world to catch the Super Bowl yesterday, you will have seen Intel’s drones play a part in lighting up the Halftime Show. It’s not the first time the company has added a futuristic feel to a major sporting event. …

“It’s a match made in heaven,” David Dodds, a UND spokesman, told Agweek. The relationship, recently recognized in a “memorandum of understanding” signed on the UND campus, is still in its early stages, and many details still need to be worked out. But there will be a role for North …

A Swiss drone company is joining forces with the European Space Agency’s initiative to rocket high-tech startups into successful orbits around the business world. Drone Harmony of Luzern, Switzerland has joined the ESA Business Incubator Switzerland, allowing the start-up to upgrade its UAS missions-planning platforms using satellite data. Created three years …

DJI is taking active steps to respond to the media firestorm resulting from their internal fraud investigation. Earlier this month, the company announced its findings that internal employee theft had led to huge company losses estimated at $150 million. Now the company has released an open letter responding to the …

Two leading drone data software solutions are joining forces at DistribuTECH this week to show utility professionals and commercial drone operators a complete workflow system – delivering world class drone maps with context and AI-driven image intelligence. DistribuTECH is the utility and energy industry’s leading technology conference.  It’s a growing …