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A Purdue-liveried Windracers ULTRA cargo drone with the tail number N90PU seen from a wing-mounted camera in flight over harvested Indiana farm fields

Indiana · Indiana

Indiana FAA Drone Test Site Plans Kinetic Tests Under A Civil Program

Purdue's Windracers ULTRA opened Indiana's FAA test site with a flood-relief drop. Its director says kinetic and counter-UAS tests set it apart.

Haye KestelooNov 86 min read

A Washington National Guard warrant officer in camouflage holds a small gray quadcopter while briefing two police officers and two civilians in a classroom with drone equipment laid out on tables.

Counter-Drone

FEMA Counter-Drone Grants: Local Police Deadlines Land Before Nov 16

FEMA's $250M counter-drone round closes November 16, but Kansas police must file by November 4 and Indiana and Mississippi close November 6.

Haye KestelooNov 2

Black quadcopter with a Livox Mid-360 LiDAR dome on top and MARS lettering on its frame, hovering in front of blurred mountains

Analysis

Purdue's "From Scratch" Drone Video Names a Hong Kong Lab's Planner

A Purdue lab says it built its viral forest drone from scratch. Its telemetry names SUPER and FAST-LIO, open-source code from the University of Hong Kong.

Haye KestelooOct 26

Amazon

Corvus Robotics Drones Cut GNC Backorders to 98 a Day

At a GNC nutritional supplement warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, four small drones fly overhead every day. They count more than 2,000 plastic-wrapped pallets nobody wanted to count by hand. The aircraft come from Corvus Robotics, a startup building autonomous indoor flyers tuned for warehouse inventory work. Since GNC brought the program online two years ago,…

Rafael SuárezJun 27

DJI

Young Touts Indiana FAA Test Site At Spray Drone Field Day While The Aircraft On The Tarmac Stay Chinese

Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close look at the same machines that Hoosier farmers now use to seed and spray thousands…

Haye KestelooJun 22

Skydio

Vanderbilt’s Campus DFR Goes Live With Skydio X10

Vanderbilt University Public Safety has launched a drone first-responder program for its Nashville campus, with installation and personnel training completed in April 2026 and initial operations conducted during Commencement week. The fleet is built on Skydio X10 platforms, equipped with high-resolution cameras, thermal imaging, and a parachute recovery system. According to the university, a drone

Rafael SuárezMay 23

Drone Research

Purdue Bets Big on AI to Automate the Skies

Purdue University just put its full weight behind a future where one drone pilot coordinates dozens of aircraft at once. The Indiana research powerhouse is expanding a cluster of AI and autonomy programs that could fundamentally reshape how drones operate at scale. Building the Brain for Autonomous Flight The centerpiece of Purdue’s effort is AIDA3,…

Rafael SuárezMay 6

Drones and Divers Recover Body of Missing 11-Year-Old in Indiana River

Firefighters

Drone and Divers Recover Body of Missing 11-Year-Old in Indiana River

A girl who went missing in the White River in Columbus, was recovered by Indiana Officers using divers, boats, and an underwater drone.

Rafael SuárezApr 3

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