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The Pentagon is finally moving with more urgency, launching a one billion dollar effort to buy hundreds of thousands of small one way attack drones, and the goal is to force the entire defense industry to reorganize around scalable, low cost production, The War Zone reports. The initiative is called the Drone Dominance Program, and…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. DJI is ending support for certain drones and payloads, and we’re going to talk about which ones. We have a drone that helps rescue a missing person. Also, shots were fired at a police drone during a chase. And lastly,…
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Chevrolet is bringing a massive holiday light show to Atlanta next week with one thousand drones set to rise above Piedmont Park, as Secret Atlanta reported. The show is part of the Chevy Holiday Magic tour, a country wide event traveling from San Diego to Detroit with stops in Dallas, Nashville and Atlanta. The caravan…
As Spectrum Local News reports, the Portland City Council is preparing to revisit a drone proposal that it rejected only a few weeks ago. The vote takes place tonight, and it will decide whether the Portland Police Department can move forward with buying a drone priced at forty five thousand dollars. Absolutely not chump change.…
Schofield Barracks has become one of the most active testing grounds for soldier built drones inside the United States Army. The 25th Infantry Division’s Lightning Lab is leading this push as Defense One reports. The unit is building, modifying, and flying new first person view drones that are meant to support operations across the Pacific.…
Heven AeroTech has reached a new milestone in the global drone industry. The Israeli founded and US based drone company is now valued at more than one billion dollars, as reported by The Jerusalem Post. The new valuation follows a one hundred million dollar investment round led in part by the American quantum computing company…
Hawaiian Electric is using drones to install new bird diverters on power lines across several parts of Maui. As reported by Maui Now, the work takes place from December 1 to December 22 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., weather permitting. Power service will stay normal during the entire operation. The company selected three regions…
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