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Portage County Sheriff’s Office deputies located a missing 91-year-old woman with a thermal-equipped drone at 11:51 p.m. on May 5, roughly 43 minutes after the initial call came in. She’d walked away from a residential care facility in Plover, Wisconsin sometime after 9:45 p.m. and ended up in a wooded area, as Waupaca Now reported.…
The FBI will field roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across FIFA World Cup 2026 venues to detect and electronically disable hostile drones, according to a Bloomberg report published May 15. The bureau takes direct command of counter-drone operations in three U.S. host cities. Department of Homeland Security components cover the other…
Papa Johns is the second major pizza chain to go airborne this year. The brand teamed up with Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, to launch a pilot program in Indian Trail, North Carolina on May 11, as PMQ Pizza reported. Customers near Sun Valley Commons can now order three Oven Toasted Sandwiches through the Wing…
The Chula Vista Police Department announced this week that its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program has surpassed 25,000 missions since launch, making the agency that pioneered the entire model in 2018 the clearest proof yet that drone-led emergency response works at scale, as FOX 5 San Diego reported. The milestone matters because CVPD isn’t…
Michigan House passed just 2 of 15 SHIELD drone bills, both restricting state purchases of Chinese-made drones. The other 13 stay behind.
Robinson Unmanned's Helius pocket drone, originally promised Q4 2025 delivery at $4,499, is still a prototype with production now slipping to mid-2026.
Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy tells XPONENTIAL Detroit he is moving Manna's manufacturing from Dublin to Tulsa and targeting 2,000-3,000 US jobs.
FAA ATO COO McIntosh at XPONENTIAL Detroit: drones treated as aircraft, operators as pilots; new radar data sharing test program coming in two weeks.
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