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Maryland · Anduril

Anduril's $3.7B Maryland Shipyard: Trump Adds Drone Subs, 40% Stake

Anduril's $3.7B Maryland shipyard will build Virginia-class sub parts. Trump promised drone subs and a 40% taxpayer stake neither release mentions.

Haye KestelooOct 75 min read

Skydio

Skydio Docks End Montgomery’s Rooftop Observers

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…

Rafael SuárezJul 9

United States

Sky Elements Marks America’s 250th With 700 Drones in Irving

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…

Rafael SuárezJul 5

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface

Department of Defense

ABSI Hosts Hive Mind Robotics Team for Counter-UAS Tour

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.…

Rafael SuárezJun 26

PRISM

Teledyne FLIR’s Prism C-UAS Hunts Drones With AI and Thermal

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…

Rafael SuárezMay 1

NASA

NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch

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…

Rafael SuárezApr 27

NASA

NASA Is Sending Organs by Drone, And It Actually Makes Sense

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.

Rafael SuárezApr 25

Counter-Drone

Kratos Wins $7M Contract to Detect Drones and Cruise Missiles

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…

Rafael SuárezMar 16

Maryland

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