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Orlando to Vote on $6.8M Axon Skydio Drone Plan
The Orlando City Council is set to vote Monday on a $6.83 million expansion of the Orlando Police Department drone program, a move that would formalize a Drone as First Responder system built around Axon’s Skydio aircraft, according to Orlando…
Army Hosts First Best Drone Warfighter Event
The U.S. Army has added a new arena to its culture of elite competitions. This time, the battlefield fits inside a backpack and launches with a whine. From February 17 to 19, soldiers gathered at the University of Alabama in…
FAA shuts down El Paso airspace, DJI VP detained in China, Kansas City counter-drone bill, and drone pilot faces federal charges
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week, and they’re quite interesting. First up, the FAA abruptly shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas. A former DJI VP has been detained in…
SkyDrive Secures 10 SD 05 eVTOLs for Taiwan
Japan’s electric air taxi race just added a Taiwanese runway. SkyDrive Inc. has reached a general understanding with 7A Drones Co., Ltd. for the purchase of 10 SKYDRIVE Model SD 05 eVTOL aircraft, marking the company’s first Letter of Intent…
Swarm Aero Opens Arkansas UAV Plant
A new drone factory just fired up its engines in the American heartland. California based startup Swarm Aero has opened an 80,000 square foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas, positioning Northwest Arkansas as a rising node…
AI Drone Beats Human Champions in Abu Dhabi
In April 2025, inside the neon charged arena of the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi, something quietly historic happened. An autonomous racing drone did not just compete. It defeated three human FPV world champions in head to head knockout…
Ottonomy Launches Ottumn.AI to Orchestrate Drones and Robots
At the India AI Summit, California based Ottonomy.IO unveiled Ottumn.AI, a cloud orchestration platform designed to coordinate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure as if they were sections of the same mechanical orchestra, as published by The Robot Reports. The company…
Rockbridge First Responders Embrace DJI Matrice 30T and Autel 640T
In Rockbridge, Virginia, first responders have found a new partner that does not drink coffee, does not complain about overtime, and can hover over a cornfield at midnight without blinking. The Rockbridge Regional Public Safety Communications Center has quietly built…
Ole Miss Symposium Puts Drones in Crisis Response Spotlight
In a world where minutes can redraw the map of a community, drones are no longer weekend gadgets or delivery pipe dreams. They are becoming airborne lifelines. On March 2, the University of Mississippi will host its second Unmanned Aircraft…
EDA Advances Swarming Underwater Drone Tech
The ocean is a hostile place for autonomy: GPS disappears a few meters below the surface, radio waves weaken, latency stretches, and water itself behaves like a restless, shifting labyrinth. That is the environment where the European Defence Agency decided…
TEKEVER Opens UAS Training School at West Wales Airport
Europe’s AI driven drone heavyweight, TEKEVER, has officially switched on the lights at its new UAS Training School in West Wales, turning a quiet corner of the Welsh coast into what looks increasingly like a nerve center for serious unmanned…
FAA shuts down El Paso airspace, DJI VP detained in China, Kansas City counter-drone bill, and drone pilot faces federal charges
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week, and they’re quite interesting. First up, the FAA abruptly shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas. A former DJI VP has been detained in…
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