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The Santa Ana Police Department is asking the City Council to approve a contract worth about $683,000 to officially launch the city’s first police drone program, with a vote scheduled for February 3. If approved, Santa Ana would join a growing list of police departments in Orange County that already operate their own unmanned aircraft…
The SkyFoundry Act to confront this gap head on, and the proposal has now been folded into the latest National Defense Authorization Act.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. Michigan proposes a controversial 15-bill drone regulation package. A new unofficial drone speed record has been set. Police use a thermal drone to track down a hit-and-run suspect. And the Super Bowl is a no-fly zone. Let’s get to it.…
China has completed the maiden flight of the CH YH-1000S, a hybrid powered unmanned transport aircraft that could reshape how the People’s Liberation Army sustains forces in contested environments like the Taiwan Strait, as SCMP reports. According to China state media, the CH YH-1000S first flew over the weekend from an airport in Chongqing, marking…
The U.S. Army is shopping for a very specific kind of help. Not another tank. Not another jet. It wants autonomous flying drones and ground robots that can scrub away chemical and biological contamination while humans stay at a safe distance, as Military Times reports. The program is called the Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS,…
High school students in Hawaiʻi are proving that drones, data, and software can work together to protect fragile ecosystems, after U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda announced the winners of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for her district through a series of surprise campus visits. The annual competition drew nearly 13,900 student entries nationwide, placing Hawaiʻi’s winners…
Flying an FPV drone at 3,260 meters above sea level is one thing. Hauling 25 kilograms of cinema-grade drone gear up an icy alpine trail to get there is another thing entirely. Northside did both, strapping a RED Komodo worth over $10,000 to an 8-inch X8 cinelifter and sending it up the face of the…
The incident immediately raised alarms because the base plays a critical role in U.S. electronic warfare operations and hosts the Navy’s carrier
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