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2026 World Cup TFRs, 23-Day BVLOS Waivers, Flock Safety’s New Camera, and a Walmart Drone Delivery Fight
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. This week I have four stories for you, and they cover a lot of ground: the FAA has published the Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and you should…
Pentagon Bets Its Drone Arsenal On Racers, Hobbyists, And Two Ukrainian Firms
The Pentagon is staking the next generation of American combat airpower on a company that once analyzed grass on golf courses, a firm with roots in aerial light shows, and a startup run by a 23-year-old former drone racing world…
Georgia Bets $550K on Drones to Stop School Shooters
Five Georgia high schools will soon keep drones waiting on charging pads, ready to fly at an attacker before police can reach the building. The state set aside $550,000 to test the idea this fall. The drones are piloted by…
Flock Safety Pushes Alpha Camera As The Sensor Arms Race In Police Drones Heats Up
Flock Safety is putting its camera front and center in a new round of marketing for the Alpha, the company’s American-made Drone as First Responder aircraft, with a slickly produced clip that frames the payload as carrying more sensors than…
Green Berets Drop 500-lb Glider Drones in NATO Drill
U.S. Army Special Forces and a Romanian Air Force crew dropped autonomous cargo gliders over North Macedonia during Trojan Footprint 26, the largest U.S.-led special operations exercise in Europe. The aircraft were DZYNE’s Grasshopper resupply gliders, the same family the…
Bloomington Tests Skydio X10 DFR Drones for First Response
The City of Bloomington, Minnesota, will spend the next two weeks running a Drone as First Responder pilot using Skydio X10 aircraft and the Skydio Dock, the city announced on May 15. The testing period begins the week of May…
South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
South Carolina lawmakers are closing a gap that’s been frustrating law enforcement for years. A bill dubbed the South Carolina Drone Regulation and Public Safety Act cleared a Senate committee unanimously this week, following a unanimous House vote last month,…
U.S. Army Merges Drones and Electronic Warfare at Fort Stewart
The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division is training its Soldiers to fight in a world where a drone flying overhead and a jammer carried on your back are just as important as the rifle in your hands, as ARMY.MIL reported.…
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…
New DIRT Program Trains Personnel on Grounded Drones
A Virginia-based counter-UAS training company has launched a program built around the part of a drone incident that most training programs skip entirely: what to do after the aircraft is on the ground. 38 Sierra announced Drone Incident Response Training,…
Cobb Police Deploy Skydio Drones to Track Murder Suspect in I-75 Corridor
Cobb County police responded to a shooting involving a murder suspect near Leland and Windy Hill roads on Tuesday afternoon, deploying drones alongside SWAT teams and K9 units to track Damian Strozier, 31, who fled after exchanging gunfire with officers,…
Flock’s Jail Drone Wants to Expand to 19 County-Wide
NPR caught up with the Fulton County Jail drone story this week, three weeks after we covered the original Flock Safety deployment in detail. The national coverage matters because it surfaces two details that weren’t in the March announcement: Sheriff…