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Chula Vista PD’s DFR Drone Program Crosses 25,000 Missions
The Chula Vista Police Department announced this week that its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program has surpassed 25,000 missions since launch, making the agency that pioneered the entire model in 2018 the clearest proof yet that drone-led emergency response…
Drone Security Is The FCC’s Job, Not DOT’s: Owen Morgan Tells XPONENTIAL Robotics Panel
Brendan Schulman, the former Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs at DJI who left for Boston Dynamics in September 2021, returned to an AUVSI XPONENTIAL stage in Detroit on Tuesday to moderate a robotics policy panel that opened with…
Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
Six weeks ago, in a press release issued through the Irish government’s Enterprise Ireland agency, Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy called Ireland “the foundation of everything we do” and committed to designing and building drones in Dublin. On Tuesday…
FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
The drone industry has spent two decades arguing that uncrewed aircraft are aircraft and that commercial operators belong in the National Airspace System on equal terms with crewed aviation. On Tuesday morning at XPONENTIAL Detroit, the senior FAA official who…
AUVSI’s Robbins Defends Broader-Than-Asked FCC Drone Ban; Pentagon’s Cadenazzi Sets 2026 Section 805 Pilot Timeline
AUVSI President and CEO Michael Robbins opened the association’s XPONENTIAL Detroit conference Tuesday morning, May 12, by reframing how the largest drone industry lobby in the United States talks about the FCC’s December 22, 2025 sweep of all foreign-made drones…
Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into…
Amazon Prime Air Targets Metro Atlanta As Walmart And Wing Already Own Georgia Skies
Amazon is pushing into a metro Atlanta market where Walmart and its drone partner Wing already operate from at least six area cities. Amazon spokesperson Cait Freda confirmed to WSB-TV that the company is setting up meetings with local officials…
Amazon Begins First UK Drone Deliveries In Darlington Under A Trial-Only Approval
Amazon Prime Air made its first UK parcel deliveries in Darlington, County Durham this week, the company’s first commercial drone operation outside the United States. The service runs as a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) trial through the end of 2026,…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM After Decade-Long Wait, Industry Has 60 Days To Shape The Rule
The Federal Aviation Administration filed its long-overdue Section 2209 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for public inspection this morning, opening a 60-day comment window that will determine how thousands of fixed-site facilities can apply for permanent drone restrictions over their property.…
European Commission Opens EU Aviation Strategy Consultation, And Drone Operators Have Until May 21 To Weigh In
The European Commission opened public consultation on a new EU Aviation and Aeronautics Strategy on April 24, 2026, starting work on a framework that will replace the 2015 Aviation Strategy for Europe. Comments close May 21, 2026. For drone operators,…
After Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric Bets on Drone Inspections
Two and a half years after a downed power line sparked the fire that killed 102 people and erased most of Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric is flying drones over every island it serves, as Maui News reported. The utility has contracted…
LAPD Skydio Drones Orbited No Kings Protest for Seven Hours, Flight Records Show
The Los Angeles Police Department used its Drone as First Responder program to surveil two major protests this year, flight records show. The department’s Skydio X10 drones began circling the March 28 No Kings rally in downtown Los Angeles at…