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Wing's Delivery Drones Reveal Engineering Marvels in Spectacular Slow-Motion Testing Drone
Amazon

Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 as a project inside Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. It is…

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

New Jersey College Adds Counter-Drone Training to Its Curriculum

Warren County Community College has been quietly building one of the best drone training programs in America from a campus in Washington, New Jersey that most people in the industry couldn’t find on a map. Now it’s adding something no other higher education institution in the country currently offers at scale: a formal counter-drone security…

Aurex Opens 65,000 Square Feet of Secure Defense Manufacturing
NASA

Aurex Opens 65,000 Square Feet of Secure Defense Manufacturing

Aurex, the Huntsville-based aerospace and defense company formerly known as Special Aerospace Services, has formally announced 65,000 square feet of secure manufacturing capacity across two facilities, one in Huntsville, Alabama and one in Denver, Colorado, built and ready now for classified programs, rapid prototyping, precision manufacturing, systems integration, and scaled production. Counter-U

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

2nd Cavalry Scouts With Drones, Not Soldiers

In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment reports. They’re sitting behind their Strykers, watching a ground robot disappear into the tree line,…

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

Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework

The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software platform, as Defence Express reports. It is the largest single contract in Anduril’s history and…

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