Drone policy, incidents, and industry news across the United States — from statehouses to the national airspace.
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 people at a company in Texas, and they carry pepper spray, sirens, and strobes, not…
Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest bottleneck in commercial drone work into something close to routine. If you fly drones for…
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Motorola Solutions buys counter-drone firm D-Fend for $1.5B, adding RF drone-takeover tech as the Safer Skies Act opens the US market to police.
Palm Desert is the latest Coachella Valley community where police drones are moving from “something other cities do” to “something coming here,” and a local NBC Palm Springs commentary framed the arrival with the question every city eventually has to answer: smart safety tool, or one more eye in the sky? That’s the right question,…
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue announced this week that it has stood up a dedicated drone fleet for disaster response, with hurricane season starting June 1, 2026. The agency is flying the Skydio X10, the American-made autonomous platform that has become the default choice for public safety agencies operating under Florida’s restrictions on Chinese-manufactured drones.…
Walmart announced on May 29, 2026 that it has crossed the 1 million drone delivery mark across its U.S. operations. The headline number is the kind of thing every press release reaches for, but the line buried in the announcement is the one I want to focus on. 40% of that million happened in a…
Basalt, Colorado is the latest mountain town to look at the Drone-as-First-Responder model, and the price tag they’re putting on the table tells you exactly where this category has settled. Chief Aaron Munch presented to the Basalt Town Council on May 27, 2026, asking them to consider roughly $50,000 per drone and docking station, plus…
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