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Ukraine

Air Force Opens Hunt for Drone Killers at Home Bases

The Air Force has had enough of watching small drones poke around its installations without a reliable way to stop them. This week, the service’s Point Defense Battle Lab put out two Requests for Information asking industry for exactly what’s been missing: systems that can spot the threat and systems that can kill it, as…

Wing's Delivery Drones Reveal Engineering Marvels in Spectacular Slow-Motion Testing Drone
Amazon

Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 as a project inside Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. It is…

FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
DJI

FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure,” according to the FCC’s official…

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Police

New Jersey College Adds Counter-Drone Training to Its Curriculum

Warren County Community College has been quietly building one of the best drone training programs in America from a campus in Washington, New Jersey that most people in the industry couldn’t find on a map. Now it’s adding something no other higher education institution in the country currently offers at scale: a formal counter-drone security…

Netherlands Becomes First NATO Nation to Embed Drone and Counter-Drone Units in Every Army Combat Formation — and Is Hiring 1,200 People to Do It
Netherlands

Netherlands Becomes First NATO Nation to Embed Drone and Counter-Drone Units in Every Army Combat Formation — and Is Hiring 1,200 People to Do It

The Dutch army is about to become the most drone-integrated ground force in NATO. Starting in April, the Netherlands will begin recruiting between 1,000 and 1,200 military personnel to staff newly created drone and counter-drone units that will be embedded across every combat formation in the Royal Netherlands Army — not as a centralized capability,…

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