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Tan fixed-wing drone with two wing-mounted propellers and a V-tail flying low over a field, with a long green-roofed building and bare trees below

Department of Defense

SOCOM Plans for War Without GPS. KEF Robotics Just Got in Line

KEF Robotics joined SOCOM's free SOF RACER consortium. SOCOM plans for jammed GPS, but neither first call asks for navigation.

Haye KestelooNov 2

Amazon

Amazon Drones Fly Over Nampa, Idaho. The FAA Index Shows No Idaho File

Amazon Prime Air began MK30 drone deliveries in Nampa, Idaho, on Oct. 30, its 13th US metro. The FAA's public index lists no Idaho document.

Haye KestelooNov 2

Residents holding blue No Commercial Drones signs outside Mill Pond School in Westborough, Massachusetts, before a Select Board meeting on Amazon Prime Air

Amazon

Amazon Withdraws Westborough Drone Pad, Promises a Revised Plan Soon

Amazon pulled its Westborough drone pad application without prejudice on Oct. 30, then said a revised project is coming. The zoning appeal runs tonight.

Haye KestelooNov 2

A Washington National Guard warrant officer in camouflage holds a small gray quadcopter while briefing two police officers and two civilians in a classroom with drone equipment laid out on tables.

Counter-Drone

FEMA Counter-Drone Grants: Local Police Deadlines Land Before Nov 16

FEMA's $250M counter-drone round closes November 16, but Kansas police must file by November 4 and Indiana and Mississippi close November 6.

Haye KestelooNov 2

A small black quadcopter with carbon arms, an orange-topped body and a dangling antenna wire hovers against a clear blue sky, propellers blurred

Counter-Drone

FIU Detects Drones By The Magnetic Leak From Their Motors, No Radar

FIU and Brookhaven engineers read a drone's make and model from the magnetic field its motors leak. It costs a few hundred dollars and reaches 49 feet.

Haye KestelooNov 1

Rendering of two Starlink satellites above the night side of Earth, each projecting cones of light onto rings of coverage over city lights

FCC Filing

FCC 800 MHz Drone Order Adds a SpaceX Footnote the Draft Lacked

FCC's adopted 800 MHz drone order adds a footnote the draft lacked: SpaceX's bid for the band next door, with drones and Starlink phones told to coexist.

Haye KestelooNov 1

Close-up of the black DJI Osmo Pocket 4P gimbal head, its 3x telephoto lens beside a second lens marked 1-inch, against a dark background

FCC Filing

China Vows More Countermeasures as FCC Cuts Off Chinese Test Labs

China opposes the FCC vote ending recognition of mainland test labs from December 2028, says the US stalled talks, and threatens further countermeasures.

Haye KestelooOct 30

White and blue Joby air taxi with tail number N545JX parked on a helipad beside the East River as a crowd takes photos

eVTOL

Joby Flies Florida's 1914 Airline Route, Still Without a Fare

Joby flew St. Petersburg to Tampa International on October 30 to open Florida's eIPP week, retracing the 1914 airline route with no fare set.

Haye KestelooOct 30

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