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The FBI will field roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across FIFA World Cup 2026 venues to detect and electronically disable hostile drones, according to a Bloomberg report published May 15. The bureau takes direct command of counter-drone operations in three U.S. host cities. Department of Homeland Security components cover the other…
The Drone Service Providers Alliance is pressing the FAA to use its long-overdue Section 2209 rule to invalidate the patchwork of critical infrastructure airspace laws that 25 states wrote while the federal rule sat undone for nearly a decade. In a comment guide posted to the alliance’s website, DSPA President Vic Moss laid out a…
DJI launched the Osmo Pocket 4P at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, leaning on Ronin cinema credentials while withholding full specs and US availability.
Michigan House passed just 2 of 15 SHIELD drone bills, both restricting state purchases of Chinese-made drones. The other 13 stay behind.
At XPONENTIAL, former DJI policy VP Brendan Schulman moderates robotics panel; DOT's Owen Morgan confirms adversary drone security belongs to FCC, not DOT.
Robinson Unmanned's Helius pocket drone, originally promised Q4 2025 delivery at $4,499, is still a prototype with production now slipping to mid-2026.
Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy tells XPONENTIAL Detroit he is moving Manna's manufacturing from Dublin to Tulsa and targeting 2,000-3,000 US jobs.
FAA ATO COO McIntosh at XPONENTIAL Detroit: drones treated as aircraft, operators as pilots; new radar data sharing test program coming in two weeks.
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