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Montgomery County, Maryland, is pulling the human spotter off the rooftop. The county police department said on July 6 that it is rebuilding its Drone as First Responder program around docked Skydio X10 aircraft at six sites, and flying them beyond visual line of sight without the observer the old setup required. This was the…
Sky Elements Drone Shows put more than 700 drones over Lake Carolyn on Friday night, July 3, headlining Sparks & Stripes, the City of Irving’s two-day celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The drones opened the night at Levy Event Plaza in Las Colinas, and a traditional fireworks finale closed it. Eighteen months after DroneXL reported…
Members of growingSTEMS Robotics Team 836A, known as The Hive Mind, toured ABSI Aerospace and Defense in California, Maryland this month to see how the company builds the expendable unmanned targets the U.S. military uses to train against hostile drones. The Hollywood, Maryland team had just returned from the VEX IQ World Championship in St.…
Teledyne FLIR OEM launched Prism C-UAS on April 28, a counter-drone software stack that pairs thermal imaging with AI-driven object detection and tracking. The pitch is detection range, as reported by Business Ware. Prism can lock onto a drone showing fewer than four pixels on target, which buys defenders more time to respond before a…
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and finished testing the laser inside the science payload that will sniff Titan’s surface for the…
Right now that's a minimum of ninety minutes door-to-door if traffic cooperates. A drone? Straight line. Twenty minutes, maybe less. No traffic lights.
A classified customer just handed Kratos a production contract for a system that hunts low-profile drones and cruise missiles. Who ordered it and where it deploys stays secret. What it does does not. The Contract Kratos Will Not Talk About On March 3, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions announced a $7 million production contract for…
Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions. The timing matters because this is the phase where problems get expensive fast. And according…
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