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Bridgeport’s Flock Safety Drone Program Collapses Five Days After Launch Amid National Backlash
Just five days ago, we reported on Bridgeport, Connecticut officially launching its Drone as First Responder program with Flock Safety. Mayor Joe Ganim was demonstrating the drones on rooftops. Police Chief Roderick Porter was calling it “re-imagining policing.” Council President…
Drone Soccer Helps Asheboro High School Build a STEM Powerhouse
Drone soccer sounds like something invented during a late night brainstorming session involving caffeine and spare propellers, but at Asheboro High School in North Carolina, it has quietly become one of the most effective STEM programs in the state, as…
FAA Designates First New Drone Test Sites in Nearly a Decade: What It Means for Part 108
I’ve been following Indiana’s push for test site designation since we covered their bid last month, and today the FAA made it official. But the real story isn’t just that we have two new test sites. It’s that the Trump…
Skydio X10 Drone Becomes First on Scene in Fairfax County Police Calls
A Skydio X10 drone reached a potentially dangerous 911 call in Fairfax County, Virginia, in just 57 seconds, arriving before any patrol officer and fundamentally changing how police handled the situation. The call came in near Fair Oaks Mall, where…
FEMA’s $500M Counter-Drone Program Launches With World Cup Funding
I’ve been tracking the expansion of police counter-drone capabilities for months, and what just happened is bigger than the headlines suggest. Missouri received $14.24 million in federal funding for World Cup drone security, but that’s not the real story. The…
DJI Ban: Why Everyone Owes Drone Pilots Honest Answers
This week, DJI’s Head of Global Policy Adam Welsh sat down with YouTuber Faruk from iPhonedo for what was billed as a deep dive into the looming December 23 DJI ban. I watched the interview hoping for hard questions. What…
DJI Drones Help Find Lost Pets in Virginia Mountains
When a pet goes missing, most people fall back on instinct. Walk the neighborhood. Call the name louder each time. Convince yourself the dog knows how mortgages work and will return voluntarily. It is emotional, time consuming, and rarely efficient,…
Indiana Pushes to Become America’s Next FAA Drone Test Site
U.S. Senator Todd Young has led Indiana’s entire congressional delegation in a bipartisan letter urging the FAA to select the state as one of two new national drone test sites, WRBI Radio reported. The delegation argues that Indiana’s manufacturing power,…
How SHARK Uses Drones To Fight Animal Cruelty
Cockfighting is illegal in every state, yet the events continue in hidden barns, remote fields and behind fences built to block curious eyes. But these fences are no match for drones. Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, better known as SHARK,…
UK’s Chinese EV Ban Mirrors America’s DJI Drone Crackdown. Western Security Theater Goes Global
The playbook American lawmakers perfected against DJI drones is crossing the Atlantic. The UK Ministry of Defence is considering a blanket ban on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles for military personnel, citing surveillance concerns over built-in cameras and microphones—the exact same argument…
Dallas Proposal Lights Up the Sky With Drone Spectacle
According to PEOPLE, Dallas witnessed one of its most extravagant drone shows when influencer Erica McDowell stepped onto a balcony and saw the words Will You Marry Me glowing above the skyline. It was the moment her boyfriend of five…
Wrap Technologies Launches First Drone System That Can Physically Restrain Suspects
Wrap Technologies has unveiled what it claims is the first commercially available non-lethal drone interdiction system in the United States. The DFR-X payload system, branded as the MERLIN-Interdictor, mounts the company’s BolaWrap tether technology onto drones—transforming passive observation platforms into…