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K-State Salina Trains Kansas Farmers To Fly Spray Drones

K-State Salina Trains Kansas Farmers to Fly Spray Drones

Kansas State University Salina is putting agricultural drone spray operations directly in farmers’ hands. The university’s UAS program is offering a two-day in-person course covering everything from regulatory compliance to live spray missions, with the next session scheduled for May…

New Dirt Program Trains Personnel On Grounded Drones

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,…

Big Red One Tests Ows Drones For Anti-Armor Missions

Big Red One Tests OWS Drones for Anti-Armor Missions

Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division’s engineer battalion at Fort Riley, Kansas, spent the last week of April launching one-way strike drones in a series of live experimentation events with a small defense contractor, as DVIDS reported. The exercise has…

Leander Tests Skydio Drones On Live 911 Calls

Leander Tests Skydio Drones on Live 911 Calls

Leander, Texas, is putting two Skydio drones on actual 911 calls for two weeks to decide whether the city needs a permanent Drone as First Responder program, as CBS Austin reported. The trial runs May 4-15 and deploys the aircraft…

Purdue Bets Big On Ai To Automate The Skies

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…